I move:
"That the consideration of the Town Planning and Rural Amenities Bill, 1929, be adjourned until the second day on which the Senate shall meet after the Recess."
I will explain in a word or two the position in which this Bill is. It is a Bill that originated in the Senate, and when it came to the House in Committee a resolution was passed appointing a Select Committee to consider the amendments to it. Accordingly the Bill went to a Select Committee, which considered it most carefully and put in a very large number of amendments. You have all got a printed copy of the amendments that were put in, together with a copy of the Bill as amended by the Select Committee. When a Bill is sent to a Select Committee and comes back to the House it is just as if the House had passed the amendments which were made in the Select Committee, so that this Bill now comes before us on Report. While we were considering it in Committee it came to our knowledge that the Minister for Local Government was considering this question of town planning and had a Bill in contemplation, that in fact he had gone so far as to have a small committee of his own officials considering the provisions of a Bill which is to be introduced. Our Bill which comes before the House to-day on Report is, I hope, a very good Town Planning Bill. Whether the Minister will be able to take it up as his Bill, or whether he will have an independent Bill of his own, with the assistance he will get from this Bill, I do not know, but that would require time for consideration, and even if we were to go on with this Bill and take it to its final stage in this House, there are certain amendments which ought to be introduced on the Report Stage. We have not put them down because we think it more convenient and more proper in the circumstances that the further consideration of the Bill should be adjourned until we meet again next year.