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LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME COMPLETED ONLY VALEDICTORY SPEECHES TODAY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES PASSED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. By approving the Supplementary Estimates and passing the Appropriation Bill last night the House of Representatives virtually completed the programme of work for the session. The House will meet today for the usual valedictory speeches, and this will officially bring the session to a close. The afternoon was occupied in second reading debates on the New Zealand Centennial Bill, which gives legal status to the organisation set up for the centennial celebrations in 1940, and the Samoa Amendment Bill, which makes minor changes in the law relating to the administration of the mandated territory of Western Samoa. A few minutes of the evening sitting was sufficient for the completion of the remaining stages of these Bills, which were both passed.
During the discussion on the Samoa Amendment Bill, Opposition members complained that conditions in the mandated territory were far from satisfactory. They also contended that the proposals in the Bill would lessen the authority of the Administrator, and that that might lead to dangerous consequences. The Acting-Minister of External Affairs, the Hon F. Langstone, said that the Bill gave to the Samoans some amendments in the law they had asked for, and repealed certain ordinances that were repugnant to them. The Supplementary Estimates were introduced early in the afternoon. These make provision for a total expenditure of £401,036. In view of the fact that the Samoa Amendment Bill and the New Zealand Centennial Bill had been passed, the House agreed to proceed with consideration of the estimates in the evening. Urgency was taken for them, and also for the Native Purposes Bill, which contains miscellaneous clauses affecting the welfare of the Native race, and for the Appropriation Bill, which gives legislative effect to all expenditure for the financial year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1938, Page 4
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