HOTEL HOURS

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 155, 3 July 1917, Page 5

HOTEL HOURS

'! e1 A "3TX O'CLOCK DEPUTATION '

STATEMENT BY PRIME MINIS-

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WELLINGTON, July 3. A deputation representing the Dominion National Convention tpf.<*the New'''Zealand Alliance waited, on the : Right Hon. Mr Massey; Sir Joseph ( Ward, and Sir James Allen to ur.ee. the Government to ' introduce six' o'clock'closing legislation during the current session.

The Rev. R-. S. Gray (Dunedin) said that last- year the Alliance presented a petit-ion signed by 100,000 people to the Prime Minister, but the Government took no satisfactory action in the matter.

Mr Massey, replying, said that the Government was not sheltering the Trade, as must bo evident from" what had been done in the last three years. As 'to the proposed legislation,' he mip.ht assure them that the Government was oot going to shirk the question.1 The matter had not been before- Cabinet yet. They had had fir jooiv important things to deal with. Tv regard to a matter like th?.t— an important .ouestion and a policy question—no Minister had any right to commit ihe Government to 'airy course of action until it had been bofo'-e Cabinet. He was not, therefore, able to make a more definite statement, but certainly within the present session Parliament would have an opportunity of dealing with the question. He could not say anything further. It would'be'competent for any Member to move any amendment he cared to move, and it would be for the House to say whether the amendment should be agreed to. .^> • ...

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