WILD SCENES
AT A.L.P. CONFERENCE.
CHAIRMAN LEAVES ROOM. HIS RULING NOT ACCEPTED BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. Received 10.50 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY, April 14. Wild scenes of disorder occurred at the Australian Labour Party’s conference. -» When the usual closing nour arrived, a delegate moved the, adjournment till next year, immediately an amendment was submitted that the conference should reassemble. The chairman put the motion and the amendment and declared that the motion was carried on the voices. He ignored cries for a division and, hastily picking up his papers, left the room. Pandemonium ensued. Eventually order was restored and the vice-president took control. A motion that the conference be resumed to-night was carried by a large mapnity, after which the delegates dispersed quietly.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 April 1926, Page 5
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122WILD SCENES Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 April 1926, Page 5
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