CABINET AND PETITIONS.
Several times this session . members have urged that the Government ought . to give more sympathetic attention, to favourable recommendations of committees which have reported on petition* in which relief has been asked for. In the House of Bepresentatives yesterday, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. H. E. Holland) asked the. Prime Minister whether, before he departedfor the Imperial Conference, the Gov» eminent would give consideration to , petitions which had been favourably re-, ported upon.and come to a decision upon them. . ■ . ■■;•■■ .-;/ Mr. Coates said he would not like to give the impression to 'Mr. Holland that such petitions could be dealt with at once. The procedure followed by the Government was fairly tedious, and must necessarily be so. Special inquiries were made in every such case by a sub-committee of Cabinet, which. afterwards made it's recommendations to a full meeting of Cabinet after all sides of the case had been heard. The Treasury were very much concerned about committees' recommendations. He could not say that any .loose methods 'would be followed, and guarantee:that petitions favourably recommended would be dealt with in the next week or so. Full information must always b« obtained. . ■.. . ' .< ■■ ■- ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1926, Page 8
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