BUDGET DEBATE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1938, Page 6

BUDGET DEBATE

OPENING IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT READING OF THE STATEMENT LAST EVENING (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The reading of the Budget speech by the Minister of Finance, the Hon W. Nash, in the .House of Representatives last night proceeded almost entirely without interruption. Just before Mr Speaker, the Hon W. E. Barnard, took the chair at 7.30 p.m. after the dinner adjournment, the Minister walked across the floor of the House and extended the usual courtesy to the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon A. Hamilon, by handing him a copy of the Budget. The House resolved itself into Com- z mittee of Supply, with -the Chairman \ of Committees, Mr E. J. Howard, pre- •' siding, and Mr Nash commenced his speech, which lasted 1 hour 55 minutes. The House adjourned at 9.32 p.m. The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, announced that the discussion on the report-of the Pensions Department will be taken this afternoon and that the Budget debate will commence this evening, when the speakers will be Mr Hamilton and Mr Savage. Answers to questions were circulated and discussed in the House yesterday afternoon. After a further brief discussion in the late afternoon, the Municipal Corporations Amendment Bill was passed by the House.