PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 November 1913, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

WHEN WILL THE SESSION,."END?V

[By TELEGBAPH—SpECIAI- TO STAB.]

WELLINGTON. Nov. 18.

Business dragged badly in the House* to-night. Discussion en : the . Agricnl--turar Board Bill w;as discursiv.e, aridt closely approached a stonewall. Streaking after supper, Sir Joseph, Ward pointed out that there had so far been. no sign of the Government's.plans for the remainder of the : session. f'lf we are to sit*here until after Christinas, I would, like to knbw,"i he added. The Prime Minister: Hear y hear. 1 am not,in a hurry; we can sit here until June.

Sir Joseph Ward: We are not in ahurry, either. We are entitled to know what business the^ Government contemplates going on with, and why the ordinary courtesies extended to both sides have not beeri extended to-*----us. : '.-■'.:

■Later, in reply to an interjectionfrom the Prime Minister that he !.(S£r.' Joseph) would have to answer to the 'country for obstruction, Sir Joseph declared : The country can judge. Mr Massey (significantly): And thatwill be before long..