MANY SUBJECTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1940, Page 4

MANY SUBJECTS

DISCUSSED BY HOUSE INTERNAL AND OVERSEA MARKETING. FINANCE BILL INTRODUCED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Many subjects were dealt with by the House of Representatives yesterday. Before the evening adjournment the Sea Carriage of Goods Bill, the Agricultural Emergency Regulations Confirmation Bill and the Mokau Harbour Bill were put through all stages and passed. The longest debate of the sitting took place on the Agricultural Emergency Regulations Confirmation Bill, Opposition members criticising the results of the Government’s fruit marketing policy. The Minister of Marketing, Mr Nash, declared that no bad fruit was marketed by the Internal Marketing Division and that no good fruit was wasted. The evening sitting was occupied with a debate reported elsewhere in this issue, on the report of the Marketing Department, urgency being taken to enable the sitting to be extended to midnight. A Finance Bill containing 27 clauses was introduced during the evening. The most important section was that providing for a general practitioner service under the Social Security Act on the basis of a mutual arrangement between medical practitioners and patients. War regulations are being discussed today and not on Friday as had been proposed.