Manners in Parliament

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1081, 31 August 1904, Page 2

Manners in Parliament

Says tho" Post":—Tho inembors of th 0 House of Representatives of this colony do not scruplo to carry on animated convex sations whon some notorious boro is unburdening himself of Ins views, but It would apponr from tho following paragraph inaSydnoy contemporary that political manners aro better on this eido of thoTasman Hoa than on the other:—Few things strike a visitor to tho Houso of Representatives more than thedownright bud manners of a good halt of tho Members. No matter who may bo speaking, an almost continuous buzz of conversation goes on, [f tho talltors wore similarly interrupted in pri - vaio lifo tho chances aro tho politicians would comment acridly on tho ignoranco of tho oil'ondor. Yet those porsona aot in the Houso liko tho worst kind or unculturod r.nimal, and send the average visitor away with tho conviction that a worsemannered sol of tuon was nover gathered together in ouo legislative chamber. To the ertdit of tho Labour party bo it said that its members aro almost universally silent whon others aro speaking