ME. CLINKARD IS PUZZLED.
An uproar of laughter twice dismayed the United member for Rotorua (Mr. C. H. Clinkafd) when he was proffering Ms views on the closure proposal in the House of Representatives on. Saturday night. "Now we hear a lot about freedom of speech," said Mr. Clinkard, after remarking that licence limits freedom. "No one stands up for freedom of speech more than I do, so long as freedom does not degenerate into licentiousness." The speaker stood for a full minute while the House rocked with laughter. "I have been to the zoo many times," he resumed when the mirth had subsided, "and it lias surprised me sometimes—" Mr. Speaker: "Order, order." Mr. H. T. Armstrong (Labour, Christchurch East): "I wonder how you got out." Mr. Clinkard went on to say that Parliament was spoken of - throughout the country as "the talk shop." "I maintain," he wont on, "that the Parliamentary niachino as it is working at present is an unworkable one." The laughter which interrupted the speaker at this stage seemed to puzzle him as much as on the previous occasion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 30 March 1931, Page 8
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184ME. CLINKARD IS PUZZLED. Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 30 March 1931, Page 8
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