THE DAY IN PARLIAMENT
Members of the House of Represent* ;ives must have taken a pattern from ihe Legislative Council, for they put up a high-speed record for work yesterday, and passed eleven classes of the Estimates, the most important being the Post and Telegraph Department. This proved to be. the most long-winded of the series to get through, for there seemed to be a sort of general impression that new post offices can be provided as fast as shelling peas. At all events, there was a plethora of requests for such premises, both small and large, in the town and in the country, in season, but never, out o£ season. On a matter of this kind mertibers no doubt consider that it \i more blessed for clamouring constituents to receive than it is for a Government to give, hence their pertinacity in pushing their' claims. Whether that be the case or not there can be no disputing the fact that many of the requests' will at least get careful consideration, even if few are granted. With the P. and T. Estimates out of the way, the rest of the business went through at a canter, and the House was dismissed for the day an hour before midnight.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 7
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208THE DAY IN PARLIAMENT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 7
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