PETITION TO DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1934, Page 5

PETITION TO DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT.

CrOVERNOR-GrENERAL EEPUSES TO ACCEDE TO REQUEST. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, This Day. The Governor-General has refused to dissolve Parliament at the cud of this year’s session. Mr. O. M. Moore; of Auckland, has received from Sir Cecil Day, the official secretary, a letter acknowledging receipt of his letter of September Ist stating that His Excellency has considered the petition which accompanied it, purporting to have been signed by 54,000 parliamentary electors. The ground of the petition was that Parliament had without mandate from the electors legislated to extend its term of office. Continuing, the letter states: “1 am bidden by the Governor-i General to state that before signifying his assent on His Majesty’s behalf to the Bill passed by both Houses, which contained permission to extend from three years to four years the term of the present Parliament, His Excellency has satisfied himself of the legislative competence of Parliament and that under those circumstances His Excellency is unable to accede to the prayer of the petitioners.” Mr. Moore stated to-day that the petition had been circulated as far south as Christchurch. The matter would now be looked into to sec what further action could be taken.