BUDGET DEBATE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1941, Page 4

BUDGET DEBATE

FINANCE MINISTER TO REPLY THIS EVENING HOUSE TO ADJOURN UNTIL TUESDAY. PROPOSAL TO DISPENSE WITH FRIDAY SITTINGS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The discussion on the Budget will be brought to an end in the House of Representatives this evening when the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, as Minister of Finance, will make his reply. Before the adjournment was taken at 10.30 last night Mr Nash suggested, and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Holland, agreed, that in view of the pressure of work occupying the War Cabinet the House should not sit tomorrow. Mr Nash also said it might meet with the approval of the House that sittings be not held on succeeding Fridays to give the War Cabinet more time for its duties. Two Minister and several other Government members continued with the Budget discussion all day yesterday. Little that was new emerged from*the speeches, which in the main were a recital of the Government’s record in office. This afternoon formal business will engage the House, and after Mr Nash’s speech in the evening the House will adjourn till Tuesday afternoon. There have been 44 speakers since the debate began on July 17, comprising 36 Government members, six Opposition, one Independent, and one Democratic Labour.