THE RIGHT TO TALK
A PARLIAMENTARY INCIDENT. The House of Representatives spent a great part of yesterday afiomoon discus-, sing a private member's Bill, which at the present stage of the session cannot have the least chance of reaching the Statute Book. The Primo Minister was moved to a mild protect, 110 said that members must not blame him for failing to give time for the discussion of various matters when they took an afternoon for a debate of the kind he had just heard.
Mr. Poland (Ohinemuri) -. We are perfectly within ouir rights. . Mr. Massey: It is not a (iiiestion cf rights. The House can discuss anything it pleases. But members aro coming to me and asking when the session will be over. I am not anxious to wind up the session. If members feel inclined to go on discussing theso questions for the next month or two I do not object in the slightest. 'But do not blame mo for what is froinpr on. Mr. Poland said that if certain members had tried to hasten the end of the Fewiion by visiting Mr. Massey that did not bind the House.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 3, 28 September 1917, Page 5
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