HOUSE ADJOURNS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 7

HOUSE ADJOURNS

MEETING AGAIN IN OCTOBER LIMITED PROGRAMME IN PROSPECT. PREMIER ANTICIPATES BRIEF SITTING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. After a sitting extending over six days, the House of Representatives adjourned at 4.6 p.m. yesterday till Tuesday, October 1. with the proviso that Parliament can be called together sooner should this course become necessary. Late hours were observed by the House of Thursday night, and the sitting which began that afternoon lasted till 2.20 o'clock yesterday morning consideration of the Statutes Amendment Bill taking more time than had at first been expected. The House met again at 10.30 a.m. to deal with the Finance Bill No 2. for which urgency was taken for all stages. Good progress was made with the Bill, which was passed. An expectation that when the House met again the sitting would be very brief was expressed by the Prime Minister. Mr Fraser, when moving the adjournment. There would be an Excess Profits Tax Bill and an amendment to the Shops and Offices Act containing clauses withdrawn from the Statutes Amendment Bill in the early hours of yesterday morning and which authorised the Arbitration Court to fix the opening and closing hours of shops. The Insurance Companies Bill, which was now before the Statutes Revision Committee, would be proceeded with. That was all the legislation he was aware of at the moment.