PARLIAMENT RESUMES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 6

PARLIAMENT RESUMES

LIKELY TO SIT FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS. MAIN ITEMS OF BUSINESS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The main items to engage the House of Representatives, which reassembled today after a month’s adjournament, are expected to be the recently-an-nounced £8,000,000 internal war loan, which will be fully discussed, and an Excess Profits Tax Bill, to be introduced in the near future. Several other Bills are also scheduled for introduction, but all are of a comparatively minor nature, and the House is expected to sit for only about two weeks. Doubt now seems to exist whether there will be a secret session this week, as had been anticipated. No arrangements had been made for such a session up to last night, though should members desire a further opportunity to learn and discuss in secret the latest developments in the war situation, no doubt this would be provided. After business set down for consideration at this stage of the session has been completed, the House is expected to adjourn till November. After another short sitting then, it will probably adjourn again till early in the new year, unless an emergency should arise. Little business is likely to be done today. Following on the conduct of formal business in the House, tributes will be paid to Mr A. E. Jtill, former Opposition member for Waipawa, whose death occurred last week. The House will then adjourn as a mark of respect, and the actual business programme is likely to begin tomorrow. A two-day caucus of the Parliamentary Labour Party was held on Saturday and yesterday. The business included consideration of the legislative programme for the session.