DEFEATED AGAIN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 March 1927, Page 5

DEFEATED AGAIN

N. S. W. CABINET THREE TIMES ON ONE BILL. TUBILA NT OPPOSITION. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIG U’J SYDNEY, March 4. Pandemonium reigned in the Assembly to-day when the Government sought the endorsement of the House to the Legislative Council’s amendments to the Liquor Bill. The Government was defeated three times, on one occasion by 37 votes to 34, on ,a motion for the application of the gag, and on the second occasion by 37 votes to 35 on the Legislative Council’s amendment, permitting liquor to lie -served with meals till nine o'clock at jught in restaurants holding win© licenses. On the third occasion, the defeat way on the amendment granting licensees the right of appeal, The Government’s defeat was due to the fact that five members: ot the Labour Party, Messrs. Elvatt, Booth, Stuart, Robertson, Murphy, and 31c.Girr refrained from voting. The Opposition went wild with jubilation, and there were choruses of “.Resign ! Resign!’’ The House accepted the Council’s other amendments and the final stage of the measure wavs carried by 41 votes to 39. The Government suffered another serious defeat in the. Legislative Council to-night when Mr. Willis’s motion to rescind the resolution referring the Earnily Endowment Bill to a select committee, and to restore a second reading to the order paper was defeated by 39 votes to- 29.