VIC. MINISTRY AVERTS DEFEAT ON SNAP VOTE
(9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 21. The Hollway Government was saved from defeat on a snap motion in the Victorian Legislative Assembly by urgently summoning four of its members to the House. After frantic telephoning the Attor-ney-General, Mr. T. D. Oldham, was discovered at Essendon airport boarding a plane to Perth and other members were found at their offices. The Opposition had sought the adjournment of the House to discuss a letter reported to be missing from a file on the Victorian People’s car project which had been tabled in the Parliamentary Library. The Government’s position would have been perilous had it not been for the absence of three Country Party mmebers, including Mr. H. J. Hyland and Mr. M. Bennett, who have absented themselves on several occasions when vital votes were taken and who have been called “unofficial Government supporters.” The Government averted defeat by 28 votes to 25. , Mr. Hollway then produced the missing docuffient and claimed that the Opposition had confused the files.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22952, 21 May 1949, Page 5
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