SESSION RESUMED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1940, Page 4

SESSION RESUMED

YESTERDAY’S BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE THREE BILLS INTRODUCED. TRIBUTES TO LATE MEMBERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Parliamentary session was resumed by the House of Representative yesterday after a month’s adjournment. A number of urgent questions were asked by members of the Opposition, and replying to one by Mr Doidge (Tauranga), the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, stated that he had no objection if it were the general wish of members to discuss them, particularly as the usual opportunity provided in the Address-in-Reply debate had been cur-) tailed this session. ; Three Bills were introduced. Orchard and Garden Diseases Amend-, ment Bill provides for the making <sr regulations requiring the partial or complete destruction of orchards affected by citrus canker, and for the payment’to the owners. The clause withdrawn from the Statutes Amendment Bill when that measure was before the House at the end of August and which empowers the Court of Arbitration to fix the opening and closing hours of shops was re-introduced in a Shops and Offices Amendment Bill. This was read a second time pro forma and referred to the Labour Bill Committee. The other bill was a Native Purposes Bill, which contains clauses of a miscellaneous nature.

Tributes were paid to the memory of the Late Mr A. E. Jull, member for Waipawa, and Mr John Anstey, a former member of the Legislative Council and of the House of Representatives. The House adjourned at 4.8 p.m. as a mark of respect till 2,30 p.m. today.