EMERGENCY POWERS
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES POSITION OF IMMIGRANT ALIENS. EXPENDITURE ON ESSENTIAL NEEDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Besides dealing with a considerable amount of detail business, the House of Representatives yesterday put through all its stages and passed the Emergency Regulations Bill, which gives the Government wide powers of control over almost all public and private utilities and activities. Moving the second reading of the Bill, the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said the Government needed the powers contained in the legislation if the country was to give of its best, and the interests of New Zealand and the British Commonwealth were to be conserved. He was followed by the Leader of the Opposition; Mr Hamilton, who urged the exercise of caution and a wise and judicious administration in any use made of the regulations. During the discussion reference was made to aliens who are recent arrivals in New Zealand from Europe. Mr Fraser said it would be a tragedy if, because of misfortune in their -former land, such people were persecuted in their new home. However, nothing would be ; left undone to see that no evilly-disposed persons did harm, to the country. In the evening, having passed the Transport Law Amendment Bill, the House went into committee to consider the Public Works estimates. Mr Hamilton suggested that the money voted for this purpose should be used for more urgent needs, such as defence and production. Mr Fraser replied that such money would be expended where it was most urgently required, irrespective of the purpose for which it might have been voted. The estimates were passed, and the House rose at 10.25 p.m. till .today.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 9
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