SESSION PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1939, Page 4

SESSION PLANS

MEMBERS OF COMMISSION APPOINTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Five members of the Legislative Council have been appointed a commission to open on June 27 the first session of the Parliament elected last October. The names of the commissioners were announced yesterday by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage. They are as follow: —The Speaker of the Council, Sir Walter Carncross (Taranaki); the Leader of the Council, the Hon. Mark Fagan (Wellington); the Hons. W. Perry (Wellington), T. Doyle (Southland), and J. Alexander (Auckland). Mr Fagan, as Leader of the Council, announced yesterday that the motion in the Legislative Council for the Ad-dress-in-Reply to the Governor-Gen-eral’s speech from the Throne at. the ceremonial opening of Parliament on Wednesday, June 28, would be moved by Mr T. Doyle, and seconded by the Hon. J. E. Duncan (Auckland).

The appointment of a new Speaker for the Council with a five years’ term of office will not come up for consideration till July 17, when Sir Walter Carncross’s record term of office will, expire.

THE CENTENNIAL. MAY INFLUENCE LENGTH OF SESSION. WELLINGTON, This Day. The work of completing preparations for the opening of the Centennial Exhibition and the national celebrations to follow is likely to affect somewhat the length of the Parliamentary session. Discussing with a deputation yesterday amendments of local government laws, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry, said he was uncertain, till Cabinet had completed consideration of the programme of legislation, to what extent he could move with the bills coming within his province. “There are many matters now under way in the Law Drafting Office,” the Minister said, “and progress with other questions requiring legislation will no doubt depend on the business done in the earlier weeks of the sessional period. The Prime Minister has recently expressed the opinion that the session would not be protracted. There is much to be' done in relation to the preparations for the opening of the Centennial Exhibition and united national' celebrations. One can visualise this work being feverishly pushed during the last few months of the year. I should say that it would make the happier all concerned in the preparations of the Centennial celebrations if the work of the session were completed a few months before the dates fixed for celebrating the big event.” '