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Labour Outwitted at Close of N.S.W. Session Sydney, April 12. The New South Wales State Parliament), the session of which closed last night, will be dissolved by Proclamation to-day, thus clearing the stage for the election campaign in the State. The session ended dramatically with a “count, out.” Labour member? who sought to prolong the sitting being outwitted by this Parliamentary expedient which ha? not been forced on a New South Wales Government) since 1889. To “count out” the House the Government members left the chamber in two’s and three’s until fewer than twenty members remained, while the sands of the time-glass were running their two minutes.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 7
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109DRAMATIC END Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 7
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