HOUSE RISES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 11

HOUSE RISES.

MEMBERS' RESPITE. fun follows work. MOCK SESSION HILARITY. COURTESIES INTERCHANGED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) TV ELLINGTON, this day. The singing of the National Anthem at 3.2.") p.m. yesterday brought the flrst portion of the session of Parliament to an end, and an adjournment was then made until 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21.

Tlvc House met at the Usual time, 2.30 p.m., but as the Legislative Council had not then passed the Broadcasting Bill, the final Government measure of the session, it was decided on the motion of the Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, to adjourn until the ringing of the bells.

At 2.50 the House resumed, and Mr. Speaker reported that the Molyneaux Gold Dredging (Claims Adjustment) Bill, the Broadcasting Bill and the Napier Harbour Board and Napier Borough Enabling Bill had been passed by the Legislative Council.

Tliero was tlion a further adjournment until the ringing of the bells, while the House waited for a message from his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Gahvay, that he had assented to the measures.

The intervening time was filled in with the usual mock Parliament, Mr. H. S. Kyle taking Mr. Speaker's chair. There was a sood deal of hilarity when 31r. F. W. Schramm moved that the member for Mid-Canterbury, Mr. H. E. Herring, show cause why he should rtot he guillotined, and Mr. Herring put up such an amusing defence that in the end it was decided to acquit him of the "heinous crimes" of which he was accused. During the mock Parliament the bar of tlio House was placed in

position. At 3.15. the House was called back to serious business by the ringing of the hells, and 'Mr. Speaker read a message from his Excellency advising the House that he had given his assent to the bills presented to him. The Prime Minister then moved the adjournment of the House until 2.30 p.iti. on Tuesday, July 21, with a proviso that members could be called together before that date should the necessity arise. Mr. Savage said he did not want the occasion to pass without returning the thanks of the Government to the Opposition for the assistance and it had given during the part of the session that had just been completed. Perhapssonic of the advice had been cut short, he added, with a smile, but it seemed to him that the results had been quite good. It was, said Mr. Savage, the first experience of his colleagues and himself in the position they at present occupied, and for that reason they felt under a deep sense of gratitude to those who had assisted them along the road, as well as to those who were shooting at them while they were going along the road. Tljo Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Forbes, thanked the Prime Minister for his remarks. The members of the Opposition. he said, felt that they had been treated with courtesy right through, though the Prime Minister at times had. had to curtail the advice so freely and ahundantlv offered. (Laughter.) Mr. Forbes added that when they came back for the remainder of the session it seemed that it would revealed wlierc tlie money was coming from. (Laughter.) They all looked forward to a very interesting time. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Barnard, also expressed 1 thanks for the courtesy shown to him in his first session in the chair. The adjournment was taken at 3.25 p.m., and the National Anthem was sung before the members dispersed.