SOME HOT WORDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 219, 13 August 1927, Page 8

SOME HOT WORDS

members of parliament. ALLEGATION AND DENIAL. (By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON. Aug. 12. There are few, if any, members of Parliament who are more effective in debate the Mr D. Jones, the lumber for Ellesmere. He is usually incisive and his remarks generally draw interjections from the Labour Party, interjections that he often ignores, but very frequently scores off. During the course of his speech tonight Mr Jones quoted from a newspaper interview with Mr Sullivan (Avon) in reference to a statement about the transferring by the Chrl ® „ church Labour City Council of money from the' quarries and electricity accounts in order to avoid an increase in the general rate of the city. Mr Sullivan, said Mr Jones, was chairman of the finance committee of tlie City Council, and he had proposed that certain sinking funds and depreciation funds should be taken for the purpose of balancing the books of the City Council at the end of the year. JMr Sullivan, said Mr Jones, had explained that it would be solely for the purpose of balancing the books at the end of the'year. Mr Sullivan said that the statement was absolutely untrue. Mr Speaker called upon Mr Sullivan to withdraw the word “untrue.” Mr Sullivan did so and said he would substitute the words “absolutely incorrect-” . , , ~ Mr Jones: I hold m my hand the hon. gentleman’s statement. He said that certain funds belonging to the Halswell quarries could be transferred and used by the City Council. He then said that it would be solely for the purpose of balancing the books at the end of the year that this money was to be taken. Mr Sullivan again interjected that Mr Jones’s statement was “monstrously untrue.” Mr Speaker: The hon. member withdraw that word again. He must not use the word “untrue.” Mr Sullivan: I will substitute “absolutely incorrect,” that is in reference to taking the sinking fund. Mr Jones said that it was interesting to know that the member for Avon admitted that it was the depreciation fund he was going to take. Mr Sullivan: I deny it absolutely. At the end of Mr Jones’s speech Mr Sullivan rose and made a personal explanation. He denied that he had said that sinking funds and depreciation funds had been taken for the purpose of balancing the books. No such funds had been taken or used for the purpose. The hon. gentleman, he said, did not understand the meaning of the word honest. “It is difficult to deal with such a man, Mr Speaker,” he aded. Mr Speaker again intervened and made Mr Sullivan withdraw the words. Mr Sullivan added that no such thing as Mr Jones had stated had been done, suggested or contemplated. He had made no such statement as had been attributed to him by the member for Ellesmere.