SCENE IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT
1 ACCUSATIONS AGAINST PRIME MINISTER MEMBER SUSPENDED ' AFTER PARTY DIVISION CANBERRA, September 11. Repeated charges by Mr Ward that Mr Lyons and other members of the Government had suppressed the discovery of a flow of oil in New Guinea led to extraordinary scenes in the House of Representatives. When the Speaker ruled that he had no power to suspend Mr Ward for the accusation, the House, on the motion of the Prime Minister, dissented from the ruling, and Mr Ward was excluded after a party division. The Speaker fixed the period of I suspension at a week. i
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22196, 13 September 1937, Page 6
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