THE NEW SESSION
PARLIAMENTARY PRECEDENT
CRdtlsh Official Wireless.} (Received October 31, 1 p.m.) ' RUGBY, October 30. On Tuesday his Majesty will drive to Westminster. to open the new session. The King's Speech will reveal 'the principal measures of the Government's legislative. programme. In the House of Commons the Address in Reply to the Speech will be moved by the senior member for Dundee, Miss Florence Horsbrugh, who more than once has been a member of the British delegation to the League Assembly. This will be the first occasion in the history of Parliament that the moving of the Address has fallen to a woman. Miss Horsbrugh is a Conservative member, and the Address will be seconded by a National Labour supporter; of the Government, Mr. Harold Nicholson, who resigned from the diplomatic service in 1929.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 9
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135THE NEW SESSION Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 9
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