QUESTIONS IN HOUSE
MINISTER’S ALLEGATION
A recent tele.Tram from the Minister of Transport, the Hon. J. O’Brien, to the Hokitika R.S.A. was the subject of a notice of question in the House of Representatives by Mr. W. Sullivan (,opp.. Bay of Plenty) in association with Mr. A. S. Sutherland (.Opp., Hauraki). They asked the Prime Minister whether the Minister of Transport was expressing the Government's considered view when he alleged in a telegram that a political party had agitated for the sending of many telegrams pretesting against the Government’s sympathetic policy in dealing with military defaulters. If that was not so, what action did the Prime Minister propose taking to keep in check such Ministers who conveyed the impression that they were speaking on behalf of the. Government when they were merely expressing their own personal views?— P.R. -
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 4
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