PARLIAMENT TODAY
SUPERANNUATION. REPORT PRESENTED. EXPENDITURE ON HIGHWAYS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When the House of Representatives resumed at 10.30 a private Bill, the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and New Zealand Red Cross Society Incorporation Bill was read a first time. In reply to an urgent question, asked by Mr D. Barnes (Waitaki) as to the amount of motor taxation spent on the roads, the Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Nash), replied total actual expenditure on roadp and highways for the years 1937-38 was £5,816,842, which did not . include loan monies other than those expressly charged to the Highways Account. The report of the National Health and Superannuation Committee was laid on the table of the House by the chairman of the committee, the Rev. A. H. Nordmeyer (Oamaru), the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, intimating that an opportunity would be afforded the House at a later suitable date for a debate on the report, when speakers would be granted a period of half an hour each. The Budget debate was then resumed by Mr Barnes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 6
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