SESSION PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1938, Page 6

SESSION PLANS

SECURITY BILL MAY APPEAR SOON PRINTING HOLD-UP DELAYING BUDGET. STATEMENT BY PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The possibility that the Bill embodying the Government’s social security proposals may be introduced in the House of Representatives before the presentation of the Budget was mentioned in an interview-last evening by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. Good progress had been made with the drafting of the necessary legislation, he said, whereas the preparation of the Financial Statement and Estimates was likely to be delayed by a hold-up in printing. Mr Savage said he was not in a position to discuss dates for the appearance of either the Social Security Bill or the Budget, but the Government would do everything in its power to expedite the work of the session. Discussing this week’s programme, the Prime Minister said it was anticipated that the Address-in-Reply debate would be completed either today or tomorrow. One day would be spent in discussing’ the report of the Committee of Inquiry into maternity services, and the rest of the week would be given over to the passing of the Government Bills which were introduced on Friday. Mr Savage also stated that the report of the select committee which heard evidence during the recess on the Government’s social security proposals would not be presented in the House until a few days before the introduction of the Bill giving effect to those proposals..