LATEST TELEGRAMS PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 December 1907, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS.

TUML'UiixVUy REPAJES TO 15E EFFECTED.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Lust Night. Cabinet hold :i long meeting to-day to discuss the situation which has arisen in consequence of the destruction of Parliament lluildings by lire. The Premier stated thai next session of Parliament would be held in temporary premises provided at the site of the old lniildiiijf. The. details of the scheme have not yet beeu decided on, but arrangements will be completed by the lime the session is due to commence. "We will go about the whole matter of rebuilding very carefully," Sir Joseph continued. "There will be no attempt to provide a palatial structure. Without in any way being extravagant, it will be necessary to rebuild in a substantial manner. I think the matter one of liiiflieient importance to consult I'arliaiueut about when next we meet. There is no occasion to call members together at this stage, and under any circumstances, if it were decided to rebuild, the building work could not. he completed under eighteen months. The necessary appropriations would require | to he made. We can easily provide temporary premises, where the accommodation will be of a reasonable kind." Asked if the session would be a short one, Sir Joseph said it would not have been as long as the last even if the building had not been destroyed. His impression was that Parliament would sit for about the usual time in the ease of a session preceding a general election.