CURBING OPPOSITION?
On the third occasion on which' the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party were "talking out" the motion for leave to introduce the Legislature Amendment Bill, the Prime Minister raised the question of the waste of time which went on over such a motion. He expressed the opinion, that discussion on a Bill should take place onthe second- -reaaW and remarked that it was only an accident that the custom had come in of allowing discussions on motions for leave to introduce Bills. On Mr. Massey's im> tion, the matter was referred.: to'the' Standing Orders Committee for a re port.
Yesterday, Mr. F. J. Rolleston, chairman of the Committee, submitted the report, which recommended, inter alia, that there should be no unnecessary delay on the introduction of Bills Mr. P. Fraser (Wellington Central)* protested, against this recommendation and said that no reason had arisen for its being made.- There had been very few' occasions on which any measure had been so unpopular as to arouse great -opposition on its introduction:
At" this" stage the time arrived for the dinner adjournment, and the report was therefore "talked out" for the afternoon.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 45, 21 August 1924, Page 5
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