HOUSE AND COUNCIL.
NEW SOUTH. WALES POLITICS. “AN INTOLERABLE POSITION.” (Received 9, 10.40 a.m.) Sydney, Dec. 9. The Widows’ Pension Bill was read the third time and transmitted to the Legislative Council. In the latter Chamber the Government was again challenged while the second reading debate was proceeding on the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill, providing tor tho return to the single-seat system. An amendment was moved providing for single seats with the preferential voting system.
Mr Willis, who is in charge of the Bill, refused to accept the amendment, stating that it was a direct, challenge to the Government which the attitude u ' the Council was placing in an intoler able position. Personally he would prefer an appeal to the country. The amendment was eventually drop ped. In the Assembly, Air A. T. Bavin moved an adjournment of the House to discuss the failure of the Government to institute inquiries into allegations of the existence of a plot by the Nationalists to bribe certain labour members. The motion was ruled out of order.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 214, 9 December 1925, Page 5
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