SPEAKER'S CASTING VOTE
A TEST MEASURE.
i "NO PREFERENCE FOB UNIONISTS."
By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright. (Received May 15, 8.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 15. The House of Representatives, after a long stonewall, read a first time the "no preference to Unionists" Bill—one of the Government's test measures — on the casting vote of the Speaker. Two absent members of the Opposition were hurriedly summoned, arriving barely in time to participate in the division.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 84, 15 May 1914, Page 7
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