LAST MINUTE RUSH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 476, 9 March 1933, Page 5

LAST MINUTE RUSH

LENGTHY SITTING EASTS , UNTIL EARLY'HO'URS OF MORNING > • * SOME FRAYED TEMPERS Wellington, Wednesday. After ap all-night sitting fo discuss the fourth Finance Bill 'of :the session, the measure Kdfi noj; phssed all its stages when the House ro'se ap 6.30 a.m. to-day, until 2.3Q this afternoon, when further clauses wm'b to be brought down. ' . 1 * . Only two concessions wex*e made bY Mr. Coates. The fii'st was in responsb to a suggestion that the proftqs^l to ixnpose an annual license f ee pn iiurses and midwives should be withdraivn, s. course to which Mr. Coates kgreed. The other concession related tb' trolley buses, Mr. Coates finally offering to reduce the scale of fees* by 40" per cent, instead of 2Q per cent as ptiginally set out in the bill. In order to clo this the schedule of tlxe.' bjlx' was not considered in committee this morning, but will be amended aixd dealt with this afternoon. The principal opposition tp the Bill came from the Labour members, who took exception to the endeavpur be: xng* made to push a composite1 measure of this nature throxxgh the Hpiise at one sitting. They also' protested against medical practitxoners " and nurses lxaving to pay annual license fees. .* . Mr. .Coates Asleep ' * Apart from two small in'cidents t|xe debate was of a quiet nature, and for several hours there was not a qnorum in the House, althoUgh atteririon was not called to this." Wlxeh : the second reading debate, came to aii 'encl Mr. Coates wat sleeping, and mis^bd his right of reply. ' " '•