House box ‘unfitting’
PA Wellington A member of Parliament suggested in the House yesterday that its messengers should not be allowed to use discarded cardboard boxes tied with string to deliver material to members.
Dr B. C. Gregory (Lab., Northern Maori) said the practice was not “fitting” to the messengers’ station and to the “decorum of the House.” But the Prime Minister, Mr Muldoon, said that the messengers found the cartons the most convenient way to deliver papers. The practice adopted over the years by the greenuniformed messengers “adds a bit of colour to the place, as do the messengers themselves,” Mr Muldoon said.
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