BLANKETS IN PARLIAMENT.
SCENE AT CANBERRA. Carrying a white blanket and a green cushion, the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Blakeley, entered the House of Representatives at Canberra at 1 o’clock on a recent morning, ready for an all-night sitting on the Wheat Bill. Placing the cushion carefully at one end of the front Labour Bench, he settled the blanket around him and lay In the meantime, however, the Speaker, Mr Makin, who was just leaving the Chamber, had quietly rehioved the cushion. IVIr Blakeley s look of astonishment raised titters all over the House. A moment later the Assistant Minister for Industry, Mr Beasley, en. tered with a white blanket and a pillow. While he was making himself comfortable at the other end of the front bench a similar fate befel his pillow through the agency of Mr Boge (Labour). There was another chorus of titters. Undisturbed, Mr Archdale Parkhill spoke on.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 8
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