SCENES IN ASSEMBLY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 9

SCENES IN ASSEMBLY

VIEWED BY MR. HARRY

HOLLAND.

SYDNEY, 11th February.

There were heated scenes in the legislative Assembly when Mr. T. R. Bavin sought to force a discussion on his censure motion on the Government. Mr. Bavin moved that the motion be regarded as one of urgency and discussed forthwith, stating that never in the history of the State had a censure motion on such an important constitutional issue been relegated to the business paper as Mr. Lang had relegated this one.

Ministerialists refused to discuss the matter, and the motion that the matter be treated as urgent was defeated by 43 votes to 33. *

Mr. Harry Holland, th't Leader of the Labour Opposition in New Zealand, was an interested spectator in the Legislative Asembly, which commenced a debate on the Parliamentary Elections and Electorates Bill, which i& practically a replica of that previously passed and amended by the Upper House.

The debate was marked by violent scenes, in which Mr. Murphy, a member of . the Government, was accused of violating a pair. At one stage a free'"" fight seemed imminent, but the proceedings later/quietened!