EXTENSION VALID.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 214, 10 September 1934, Page 8

EXTENSION VALID.

PARLIAMENT'S LIFE. PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION. HIS EXCELLENCY'S REFUSAL. The Governor-General has refused to dissolve Parliament at the end of the current session, as requested by the 54,000 signatories of a petition organised by Mr. O. M. Moore, of Auckland. Mr. Moore has received from Sir Cecil Day, official secretary to his Excellency, the following letter: — "I am directed by the GovernorGeneral to acknowledge receipt of your letter of September 1, and to inform you that his Excellency has taken into consideration the petition which accompanied it, purporting to have been signed by 54,000 Parliamentary electors, praying that his Excellency may dissolve the present Parliament at the end of the 1934 session, on the grounds that Parliament had, without mandate from the electors, legislated to extend its term of office for a further period than that for which it . was elected. j "I am bidden by the GovernorGeneral to state that before signify- [ ing his assent, on His Majesty's behalf, to the bill passbd by both Houses which contained provision to extend from three to four years the term of the present Parliament, his Excellency satisfied himself that the enactment was .vitliin the legislative competence of Parliament, and that under those circumstances his Excellency is unable to accede to the prayer of the petitioners." Mr. Moore said this morning that the petition had been signed as far south as Christchurch, and that there were additional lists still out. Personally he had given six months of his time to the petition, and had been faced with considerable expense. The matter would now be looked into to see what further action could be taken.

SAFE BLOWN OPEN.

BURGLARY IN CITY. SMALL HAUL OF MONEY. Burglars- visited the premises of Seabrook, Fowlds, Ltd, Symonds Street, during the week-end, and after forcing entrance to the strongroom, blew open the safe with explosives. The haul made was a small sum of money and a number of cheques. The latter have been stopped. Tfie burglary was carried out on lines similar to others in Auckland of late, ■which have puzzled the police. i'-vir.- ~ / ELLERSLIE VISITATIONS. During the absence of the occupants a house at Royal Terrace, Ellerslie, was entered on Saturday night and old gold jewellery valued at £5 was taken. From a hach behind a house at Sandringham, occupied by two young women, ■ two rugs valued at 30/ were stolen. Two houses at Ellerslie were entered, but nothing was stolen.