"A SUPERIOR PERSON"

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 8

"A SUPERIOR PERSON"

MEMBER FOR RANGITIKEI

REBUKED BY MR. WRIGHT

A striking tribute to the Labour member for Hutt (Mr. "W. Nash) was paid by Mr. E. A. Wright ' (Government, Wellington Suburbs) in the House of Eepresentatives last night during the course of a vigorous attack on Mr. A. Stuart (Government, Bangitikei). Mr. Wright warmly criticised the attitude which Mr. Stuart always adopted in the House. Mr. Stuart had only been in Parliament for eleven months, but he tried, to lecture men who. had baen in Parliament for years, said. Mr. Wright. The member for Eangitikei told other members that they were talking nonsense or that they did not know what they were talking about. He had ventured torcriticise the member, for Hutt, whose boots he was not fit to. brush. "He is fit;" interjected Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Labour,' Avon). Mr. Speaker asked Mr. Wright to withdraw the expression he had used in reference to Mr.. Stuart, and the remark was willingly withdrawn. Mr. Wright added that the member for Hutt had forgotfen more than " Mr. Stuart ever knew about the sales tax and many -other things. Mr. Stuart, when he accused other members of talking nonsense, should say where the weakness lay in his brother members' argument. Mr. Stuart should not.regard himself as a modern Solomon or a superior person. ■-':..