TERM OF PARLIAMENT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 379, 10 March 1937, Page 5

TERM OF PARLIAMENT

Election To Be Held Next Year.

Year. Press Association—Copyright. Auckland, March 9. The statement made by the Prime Minister immediately after the success of his party at the last general election that the term of .the present Parliament would be confined to three years’ was repeated by him today. “We held that the last Government, extended its term of office by a ye” without an expression of opinion from the people,” Mr Savage sn ! “and we undertook to repeal fka legislation providing for four-year Parliaments. That legislation will be repealed in due course and the next general election will be held toward the end of next year.

“At the same time there is milch to be said for a longer Parliamentary term. Three- years is not a very long time for any Government to give effect to its policy. However, that Is a matter on which the people must decide, and at the time of the next general election it might be advisable to hold a referendum on the possibility of extending the life of future Parliaments'. . “No definite decision has yet been made on the matter, but it is an issue on which the people, should de-; side.”