A REMARKABLE OVERSIGHT
By an oversight on tho part of the Chairman of Committees, the House of Eepresentatives was divided yesterday on a motion, which as a matter of Parliamentary privilege is not admisBible. Early in the afternoon an amendment was moved by Mr. P. Eraser (Labour, Wellington Central), and was actually voted on, although it was an instance of the imposition of taxation or charges, the introduction of which ia the prerogative of His Excellency the Governor-General by Message. The effect of tho amendment was to apply the proposed 10 per cent, salary cut to incomes taxable under the Land and Income Tax Act, of 1923.
The Chairman of Committees did not realise tho nature of the amendment xmtil the vote was actually lseing itaken, and it was then too late to rule At out. Xhe amendment-was-defeated^
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 12
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138A REMARKABLE OVERSIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 12
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