Session of Parliament May Be Held Early

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 876, 21 January 1930, Page 11

Session of Parliament May Be Held Early

FORECAST IN WELLINGTON PRIME MINISTER FOR ENGLAND Special to THE SUE WELLINGTON, Today. In all probability the Prime Minister. the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, will call an early session of Parliament some time in February. The session will ol course depend on the state of the Prime Minister’s health after he has received treatment at Rotorua. It is expected that massage and the baths will restore him to sufficient strength to enable him to take a more active interest in State affairs. The session, it is said, will be devoted to finance only. Should Sir Joseph’s health improve sufficiently it is rumoured that he proposes to attend the next Imperial Conference, which will meet in June. This ordinarily is the month in which Parliament meets in Wellington, and the short session which is referred to is expected to bridge the gap between then and his return to New Zealand. The next full session will probably begin in August. If Sir Joseph does attend the next Imperial Conference, it will be his thirteenth appearance at a meeting of Empire Prime Ministers. However, the next few weeks at Rotorua will prove .whether he will have sufficient strength to make such a long voyage. Mr. W. J. Jordan, Labour member for Manukau, informed a Sun representative that he had not received official intimation of the calling together of Parliament. In a telegram sent to the Prime Minister recently he had suggested that, if Cabinet could not do anything to relieve the unemployment at present existing, Parliament should be called together to consider the situation. To that suggestion, however, he had not yet received a reply.