SESSION PROSPECTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1943, Page 2

SESSION PROSPECTS

PARLIAMENT LIKELY TO RISE ON AUGUST 24 OR 25

TWO CONTROVERSIAL BILLS.

PREMIER OUTLINES REMAINING WORK.

(By Telegraph-Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

An indication of the remainder of the business for the session, which is expected to conclude on August 24 or 25, was given by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, before the House of Representatives’ adjourned last night. Replying to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Holland, the Prime Minister said that further classes of Estimates would be taken today. The second reading debate of the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Bill would be resumed on Wednesday, would continue on Thursday and, if reasonably long hours were observed, the committee stage should be reached by Friday of next week. Another controversial measure, the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill, would follow the Land Sales Bill. Mr Holland: "Both these Bills are to go through?” The Prime Minister: “That is the intention, unless good reason is shown why they should not.” Mr Holland: “Good reasons have been shown.”

To Mr Holland the Prime Minister said there was no possibility of the House finishing in the coming week. He expected it would rise on August 24 or 25.

Further items of legislation were a Social Security Amendment Bill and a War Pensions Bill, neither of which he expected would prove controversial. In fact, he expected a chorus of applause for both.