A Parliamentry Notebook

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 109, 29 July 1927, Page 8

A Parliamentry Notebook

A Useful Sitting j (THE SUE S Parliamentary P c porter ) WELLINGTON, To-day "pHE House of Representatives is ia true working order, and as a re . I s ult this sitting shows a creditable I Statute record. Two Agricultural College Bills, Rent Restriction Continuance, and Imprest Supply No, • B ills passed through al! stages, members having very little to say on the in,, prest measure. Civic authorities were reminded by the Hon. G. J. Anderson. Minister of Labour, of their responsibilities in clearing up the slums. Several questions have been tabled aiming at investigating the operations of the Dairy Control Board. Information is also being sought regarding other produce boards. The House rose at two o'clock. Today will be devoted to private members' business. Sc Many Con-rcssiors A return showing Royal Commissions and their cost for the four individual years ending March 31, 1923-2, 1924-25. 1925-26, 1926-27 respectively is asked for by Mr. IV. A. Veitch Leader of the Liberal Party. Local Body Finance An alteration to local body finance enabling the increased use of the savings batik, is suggested by Mr. D Jones, Ellesmere, who will ask the Minister if he will allow local bodies to place loan and general moneys in one account to save bank interest, when one account is in credit, and failing that give necessary relief through the opening of the Post Office Savings Bank to local bodies and enable them to draw on the same by cheque. Religious Exercises IVhen the Religious Exercises in Schools Bill, which is in the hands of Mr. H. Holland, Christchurch North, comes to the committee stage Mr. h! Atmore, Nelson, will move amendments. Of this intention he gave notice to-day.

Smokeless Fuel As it is some time since experiments with smokeless fuel were carried out on certain railway lines in Canterbury, Mr. H. S. S. Kyle. Riccarton, has asked the Minister of Railways to reveal the results of the tests. Right to Work The Right to Work Bill, in the hands of Mr. P. Fraser, Wellington Central, was introduced and read the first time in the Piouse of Representatives today. The Bill really is a skeleton measure involving the principle of the right to work, and will provoke discussion upon the whole unemployment question. The trade union movement has declared in favour of the principle of compulsory unemployment insurance, and it is possible that a Bill, involvong concrete proposals of this nature, will be placed in the hands of a private member to introduce into the House later in the session. Lure of the Law •‘There are as many young men studying for the law in this count -. as there are practising,” interjected Mr. T. M. Wilford, Hutt. while Mr. HE. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, was speaking upon the desirability farmers and wage-earners a y*® h have their sons educated, not with object of becoming stalwarts of g teel occupation, but with a having them producing units in general community service. - . “There is no room for them m tn® legal profession,” Mr. Holland agree ’ “and I believe this fact is responsive for many of our young men into trouble so often to-day. study a profession and then nnu t * there is no room for them to be