"LANG NOT FINISHED."

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1934, Page 15

"LANG NOT FINISHED."

POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN N.S.W.

MR. WRIGHT'S IMPRESSIONS.

Keen interest in political and other affairs was taken by Mr. E. A. Wright, M.P. for Wellington Suburbs, during a visit to Sydney, from which he returned yesterday.

"I attended a session of the Legislative Assembly in Sydney and noticed a very great improvement in the tone of the proceedings," Mr. Wright told the "Post." "The Premier had been able to carry in the House a resolution that the proceedings open with prayer. There was a very liot debate on the motion, but ultimately it was carried, and it has undoubtedly improved the situation and created a better atmosphere. Quite a number of members of Parliament do not attend while the Htfuse is opening with prayer, but apart from that it has improved very much the condition of affairs as I remember it when I was there five years ago. Mr. Lang Not Finished. "Mr. Lang is still in evidence and is by no means finished. The next election, it appears to me, will be very keenly contested,> and if Mr. Stevens, the present Premier, enters tho Federal House of Representatives, as has been suggested by a great many of his friends and business people, it is difficult to know what may happen, because, with nil due deference to the members in the Legislative Assembly, I cannot at the present time see a very strong man capable of taking his place. "The proceedings in the Assembly yet are not comparable with those in the House of Representatives in New Zealand. T attribute that largely to the building. Members sit in a row like passengers in a train or perhaps more like an ordinary road board meeting. The result of their beinpr huddled together side by side is that the Speaker does not seem to have the same control and power over the House as does our Speaker in New Zealand, so that whatever may be said about the New Zealand Parliament, it certainly is carried on in a dignified way compared with some others."