PARLIAMENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10672, 29 June 1912, Page 5

PARLIAMENT

ToleJjl|.—Press :Associatiou.) Jj ued'isM|ive council. Last ■ Niglit. t Th: met at 2.30 On the imoti|s- cf?™fcnJ;Sir. W. J. Stxiuucd/llib motioriMff the Ad-dress-m-JEteply to as until i;he next day. / ".o lweipt of r'the-'lmpfe'Sti' Supply.. 1 from the jjbher Chamber. =. •house' of representatives. • .. The House of Representatives met |gat 2.30 p.m. IT 4 LEAVE OF ABSEXCESeVen days' leave ; of ' absence as •grafted to Mr v Herries. _ v ;PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS. ' A .number of As were introduced by private .members, arid read a first ; time. ' ' .!■■■,■ ; IMPREST SUPPLY BILL. Hie-Imprest-Supply Bill. for £'l4,SOO Av'fis in>trodaic£'d ;bv Governor's '•'Message..... . -'v •' . Mr W. F. Massey (Leader of the ' iOippositfcin) 'Srtid he had; no desire hold up the proceedings, but he Rstrongly" objected ; to the delay in dewn it,he Imprest-V Supply .' ®iH. Parliajirenfc should have been 5 Called -tooether long before the end; of June. He—hoped that ; the House would he called earlier in • iflltiU'C. ' _ 'JTh? Premier replied that Parliament luiid been ciilled together -in the ordinary yav.- ' There had been no. ipaa'tuire from the course pursued for years.: ' ; "m, Mr J. Allen sasd' the House should lr. have been called .together earlier. The u'Prcroior had Viever yet met the House, and did not;know,.Palrliament's opin- •: ion d liiixi'/ or cf his 1 colleagues.- ;'. , - a': lengthy 1 disctassion hire- , gard to 'the" four million loan (ropbrted ci!sf.-,v]icrr-) the. Bdl • was Tead a third t-'inc'■•and piwtfed.•' , •Tlio. House rose at 9.45 p.m. The- Council • \vil i l consider the Imprest :.Sr(pply "Bill at 10 a.m. to^mor- . ' a : mv -