PARLIAMENT NEXT MONTH.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1921, Page 4

PARLIAMENT NEXT MONTH.

A SESSION OF TEN DAYS. ONLY URGENT BUSINESS. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Last Night. The session of Parliament to be opened on March 10 is not likely to extend beyond ten days. The Prime Minister will not require to introduce any formal resolution relating to the call that has reached him to proceed to London. He will ask the House for supply for whatever extended period may seem to be necessary, and the question of his personal attendance at the Imperial Conference can be discussed on the Money Bill. This is the procedure that the Prime Minister expects to adopt. Mr. Massey stated, in answer to a question on the subject, that the business of the short session would not necessarily be confined to finance. He would be willing to take any other urgent business that might present itself, but he did know of much that could wait until the regular session of Parliament later in the year. Members of the Legislature, of course, would have their usual opportunities to put forward requests and suggestions, and it would not be possible to say in advance just how the session would proceed. The Prime Minister will require to be in London early in June, and if the arrangements necessary for his attendance at the conference are made he will leave New Zealand about the middle of April. If he spends six* weeks in London he chn be back in New Zealand early in September, and the second session can open about the end of that month.