LONG SITTING
OF FEDERAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MACE PRACTICAL JOKE. (By Telegraph. - Press Association,— Copyright,) MELBOURNE, 22nd May. The Opposition in the Federal House of Representatives is stonewalling the Bill for abolishing preference to unionists in the Public Service. The debate lasted throughout last night, and will continue to-day. During the adjournment for the official luncheon to the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson), the mace mysteriously disappeared from the table of the House. A protracted search proved unavailing. The mace subsequently reappeared on the table of the House. It dropped from tho place where a practical joker had hidden it under a Ministerial bench. The No-Preference Bill was earned through its second stage, on the casting vote of the Speaker. Tho sitting continues.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 5
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