GETTING TIRED.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 7

GETTING TIRED.

Late hours are apparently beginning to tell on members, and when the Education Estimates were' put through the Hijuse of Bepresentatives at 12.30 o J clock this. morning, Miv Holland urged that consideration of the next class, Railways, be postponed-until 11 a.m. to-day. He said he did not know how other members felt for want of sleep, but he could not endure it any longer. "It is time it was recognised-that we are entitled to some measure, of sleep," he said. "Unless we get through we cannot do' the work," said the Prime Minister. It was intended to -take the Public Works Statement and Estimates to-day, arid if they got them through by 4. o'clock, they would be doing very well. Members had expressed a desire to finish up early on Tuesday. If members would, agree to finish the Public Works Estimates by 4 o clock he would be willing to.adjourn. .

Mr. R. Masters (Stratford): "We can't do it." . ..'.'*-.

. "I am sick for want of sleep," observed Mr., Massey. "Put the Railway Estimates through to-night, on my account, i! for no' other reason, and let us get on with the work." ''

"I make this offer from-the. Labour benches," said >Ir. Holland". "We'll agree to an arrangement that will put the Railway Estimates through between 11 and 1, and put the Estimates through in the afternoon. We'll enter into any arrangement." * ■ . • ..

"What does the Leader of the Opposition say?" 'asked the Prime Minister.

"It is quite impossible," replied Mr. Wilford. "We cannot be tied to time. We don'£ know what will come up in tlie course of discussion. I am not going to make any sucli bargain." Mr. Massey: "I am not finding faulC" At 1.45 a.m.-, Mr. Holland made Another appeal "to end the furce that is going on to-night. It is a farce," he said, "to pretend.to be dealing seriously with these Estimates, because there are only about a. dozen members who are intelligently listening to the discussion that is going on." Mr. Holland said that when the session came to an end, the Labour Party was going to take a' decided stand and insist that decent hours were kept in the House in future..