BEHAVIOUR IN THE HOUSE
“Something Better Expected”
(New Zeaiana Press Association/ WELLINGTON, Sept. 24. “I think it is high time we raised the level of this Parliament,” said the Speaker (Mr Macfarlane) in the House of Representatives early this morning during the second reading debate on the Dairy Products Marketfng Commission Amendment Bill. The Speaker said there had not been behaviour in Parliament in the last 50 years to match some recent events. The people of New Zealand had a right to expect something better. Just before the Speaker intervened, Mr W. A. Sheat (Opposition, Egmont) and other Opposition speakers had been involved in exchanges with the Minister of Labour (Mr Hackett), in which the word “gutter” was used on both sides. After the Speaker’s intervention, Mr Sheat proceeded to interrogate the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Skinner) on whether the Minister had consulted the price-fixing authority under the guaranteed price legislation before the recent national dairy conference. An exchange on the “1 did— You didn’t” basis followed.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 14
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