STANDARDS BILL
PASSED BY THE HOUSE OPPOSITION AMENDMENTS REJECTED. PUBLIC WORKS DISCUSSION TODAY. 'By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The debate on the Standards Bill, adjourned from Tuesday, was again the principal business of the House of Representatives yesterday. The discussion was leisurely and extensions of time were freely granted to whoever wished to speak beyond his time. Though the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, asked for urgency in order to get the Bill out of the way yesterday it was put through the final stages and passed with half an hour of the sitting remaining. Opposition members - protested against the compulsion in the Government’s scheme of standardisation, and sought the right of organisations concerned to make their own appointees to the Standards Council, the Bill giving the Minister power of nomination. Amendments to these ends were rejected. In the afternoon the Fair Rents Amendment Eill. extending the Fair Rents Act to October, 1942, was passed, and the Kitchener Memorial Scholarship Trust Bill, a measure to administer a fund to provide agricultural scholarships for sons of members of the First N.Z.E.F. who died in the Great War, was read a first time. In the evening the Minister of Mihes, Mr Webb, introduced the Coalmfes Amendment Bill, which embodies a number of alterations to the Coalmines Act for greater safety in the mines following recommendations by the commission into the Huntly disaster. It is expected that the Social Security Amendment Bill will reappear on Tuesday, next week, when amendments of some kind will be made. ■ The House rose at 10 p.m. till 10.30 this morning. Today the Public Works Estimates and Statement are under discussion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1941, Page 4
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273STANDARDS BILL Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1941, Page 4
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