PARLIAMENT FACES A LONG SITTING
IMPORTANT TASKS WORK FOR TO-DAY (.THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter .* WELLINGTON. Monday. To-morrow the House of Representatives will be called on to pass the Local Authorities Empowering (Relie; of Unemployment) Bill, and this will be followed by the first Imprest Supply Bill. Both measures are urgent, the first because the current Act expires on Thursday and it is necessary to renew it if local bodies are to find the money for unemployment relief works, and the second Bill is essential to the maintenance of Governmental services. It is likely the House will have to sit until the early hours of Wednesday morn - The Opposition intends to contest the relief rates of wages, and on this phast of the unemployment question alone they can keep the House up for many hours. On Wednesday evening the Address-in-Reply debate will be commenced. The Legislative Council will meet a: 2.30 to-morrow afternoon, when Sir James Allen and Sir Edwin Mitchelson will inaugurate the Address-in-Reply from that chamber. In the temporary absence of Sir Francis Bell, who left for the South this evening. Sir Iv. Heaton Rhodes will act as Leader of the Council.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 82, 28 June 1927, Page 9
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