WORK ON ESTIMATES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1941, Page 4

WORK ON ESTIMATES

HOUSE MAKES RAPID PROGRESS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. _ Satisfactory progress with the Estimates was made in the House of Representatives yesterday, when after brief formal business the rest of the sitting time was fully occupied in the approval of eight classes of departmental expenditure. It was a quiet day with hardly a discordant note heard in the Chamber.

The votes disposed of were as follows: Sundry Products Account, £20,502; Wool Industry, £12,713; Internal Marketing, £77,271; Fruit Industry, £20,430: State Forest, £529,000; Department of Agriculture, £1,806,800: Health Department, £1,769,895; Mental Hospitals, £448,700. The total expenditure authorised during the day was £4,885,311. To date 29 classes have been passed, involving £8,166,003. During discussion of the Health Department vote the Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer, intimated that legislation would be brought down this session concerning the general practitioner service, but he declined to say what the Government had in mind. The House rose at 5.30 p.m. till 2.30 on Wednesday afternoon. In the Legislative Council the second reading debate on the Finance Bill was carried a stage further. Mr Perry, M.L.C., urged national unity and spoke of the gravity of the war situation.