EARLY ADJOURNMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1942, Page 2

EARLY ADJOURNMENT

TAKEN IN PARLIAMENT UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY EVENING. RAPID PASSAGE GIVEN TO ESTIMATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. An adjournment taken late in the afternoon till Tuesday night was an unexpected development in the House of Representatives yesterday. Twelve more classes of Estimates had been set down for consideration at the sitting, and they were passed with such rapidity that all had been approved by 5 o’clock. Before the House adjourned, the De-puty-Prime Minister, Mr Sullivan, who was in charge, said that the idea was that the House would probably sit right through to next weekend if necessary in order to conclude the business of the session. The items of Estimates passed totalled £11,558,388, the largest individual item being the Working Railways Account of £10,100,421. The other classes were as follow: —Transport Department, £78,000; Marine Department, £147,500; National Service Department, £337,910; Railway Improvements and Additions to Open Lines, £30,000; Valuation Department, £33,200; . Wool Industry Account, £12,471; Internal Marketing Account, £60,369; Fruit Industry Account, £21,412; Crown Law Office, £8,572; Public Trustee Account, £350,833; Printing and Stationery Department, £377,700. The House rose at 5 p.m. till 7.30 on Tuesday night.