WORK OF PARLIAMENT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21229, 27 September 1940, Page 2

WORK OF PARLIAMENT

RESUME ON TUESDAY WAITING LEGISLATION SHOP HOURS AMENDMENT (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday The Parliamentary session will be resumed on Tuesday afternoon, following an adjournment of a month, i The duration of this stage of the ' session will be determined by cir- j cumstances, but before the adjournment was taken at the end of August the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, expressed the view that it would be brief. After formal business on Tuesday tributes will probably be paid to the memory of the late Mr A. E. Jull, M.P. for Waipawa, and Mr John Anstey, a former member of both the House of Representatives and the Legislative Council. Those will be followed by a short adjournment as a mark of respect. Measures that will possible be introduced include an Excess Profits Tax Bill, a Native Purposes Bill, a Small Farms Amendment Bill, dealing with the settlement of discharged soldiers on the land; an Orchard and Garden Diseases Amendment Bill, which deals with citrus canker and extends various powers; a Termites Bill, which contains provisions relating to the control of the white ant pest; and a Shops and Offices Amendment Bill, which will include the clause authorising the Court of Arbitration to fix the opening and closing hours of shops and which was withdrawn from the Statutes Amendment Bill when that legislation was before the House in August. A statement that this would be done was made by the Prime Minister at the time the clause was withdrawn.