CABINET AT WORK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 186, 31 March 1932, Page 5

CABINET AT WORK

("Post" Special Commissioner).

ECONOf/SY PROP.OBALS ministers settled down to prepare* business for sesslon PRELIMINARIES DISPOSED OF

WELLINGTON, Wednesday; Cabinet embarked. this mdrnirig pp, the task of preparing, irt-the space of the few days before the re-asseinbly of Parliament, its main economy Iegislation. There was a full muster of Ministers. Interviewed to-day, the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Fqriies, stated that Cabinet had settled down to work and preliiriinaries Had? heeri disposed of. Both the Economid Coirnmitteo's report arid. the interi'm . report of the Natiohal Experiditurie Commissiori were hfeing taken together as a basis for opening discussiori. Mr. Forbfes iridicated that it nligKfc not be possible for the Governmefli to have all its Iegislation ready fbt presentation to the House immediatr ely on resumption next Tuesday, as a great deal depended on the capaeity of the Growri "law draftsmen tb, put the proposals intb bill form arid there rilight not be sufficient timo, but he added that there would he enorigh iri prepared forrii to keep the House going: : JReplying tb other questions, thfe Prixrie Mihistei* stated tliat no eb.ttsideration had yet been given to the personnel of the New Zealand dble^ g'atioxi to tHe Imperial Economic Gonference at Ottawa, nbr had flnality been reaclied oh the question of thfe extfension of the lif.e of Parliament from three years tb four years, whiqH was diScussed at Governriient eaucng gatherings at the heginnirtg of the session.