BUDGET ON WEDNESDAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 4

BUDGET ON WEDNESDAY

ANTICIPATION OF EXTENDED DEBATE. OPENING ON THURSDAY NIGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Labour Government’s third Budget will be presented by the Hon W. Nash (Minister of Finance) in the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening next. Meantime, the House of Representatives will have sufficient debating material in several Bills on the order paper. Mr Nash will start the reading of the Budget, which usually takes well on toward two hours, at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, and as soon as he is finished the House will adjourn. The financial debate will be opened on Thursday night by the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon A. Hamilton. With a speaking-time of one hour, the Budget debate should, on presentindications, occupy about three weeks. Members had a particularly good innings on the Address-in-Reply debate —there were only nine who did not speak—and it is not likely that the Whips will be so generous in a debate in which the limit of speaking time is twice as long. < Consideration of the departmental estimates will follow the financial debate, and the way will then be clear for the big task of the session—the passing of the social security legislation, which will be piloted through the House by the Minister of Finance. The Education Amendment Bill will be the only other major measure of the session.