GOVERNMENT WIN

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1935, Page 9

GOVERNMENT WIN

NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE.

MARGIN OF EIGHT VICTORY.

THE DIVISION LIST,

(Ey Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, Wednesday.

The disinclination of- Government •members to maintain the Address-in-Keply debate because they are awaitin" something substantial in the way of the Budget to discuss enabled the no-con-fidence amendment of the Leader of the Opposition io be dealt with this afternoon. Perhaps the division at that moment was unexpected, but in view of many absences, principally through .sickness, the Government whips had been busy in maintaining full available strength.

When the debate was resumed in the afternoon, Mr. Barnard (Labour, Napier) completed a speech which was interrupted by the adjournment, and it was expected that Mr. H. M. Campbell (Government, Hawke's Bay) would follow him. But he was not in the House, and Mr. Speaker, formally putting the amendment, found nobodv ready to intercept the division by continuing the discussion. The result was, o*f course, a foregone conclusion, the amendment being defeated by eight votes, its opponents totalling 35, while the Oppo sition Leader with reinforcements from </ross-bcuehes. had a total of 27.

The distribution of the cross-bench or Independent vote was watched keenly. Messrs. K. A. , Wright (Wellington Suburbs) and C. A.Wilkinson (Egrnont), who have consistently in the past opposed the Government, voted against the Opposition's amendment. Of the other elements in this divided group, Mr. W. A. Veitch (Wanganui), the North Island deputy-Leader of the Democrats, made an early move into the lobby with Labour, soon followed by a reputed supporter, Mr. A. J. Stalhvorthy (Eden). The amendment also won the support of Messrs. Atmore (Nelson), MeDougall (Mataunv), Rushworth (Bay of Islands) and Samuel (Thames). It was a thin House, the Labour party having four members absent, and the Government side thirteen. If these members are .•ldded to the division figures, it is demonstrated that the Government, on a general no-confidenco motion, could maintain its position with a majority of seventeen, and is therefore safe for the remainder of the session.

How Votes Were Cast. Against the Amendment (35). —Ansell, Bitchener, Broadfoot, Campbell, Coates, Cobbe, Connolly, Endean, Forbes, Hamilton, Hargest, Harris, Hawkq. Henare, Jul!, Kyle, Linklater, McLeod, Macmillan. Macpherson, McSkimming, J. N. Massey, W. W. Massey, Murdoch, J. A. Nash, Ngata, Ransom, Reid, Smith, A.

Stuart, Sykes, Te Tomo, Wilkinson', Wright, Young.

For the Amendment (27). —Armstrong, Atmore, Barnard, Carr, Chapman, Howard, Jones, Jordan, Langstone, McCombs, MeDougall, MeKeen, Mason, Munro, W. Nash, O'Brien, Parry. Richards, Rushworth, Samuel, Savage, .Semple, Stalhvorthy, Sullivan, Tiriwatene, Veitch, Webb.

Pairs. —Ayes: Schramm, Lee, Coleman. Noes: Field, Lye, Holyoake.