EJECTED FROM THE HOUSE.
MAN WHO INTERRUPTED. WELLINGTON, Feb. 10, There was an unusual incident in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon when a man in the Speaker’s Gallery interjected during a speech by Mr H. T. Armstrong on tlie Statutes Revision Committee’s report on liis Gaming Amendment Bill. Referring to the suggestion that to counter the growth of bookmaking double totalisators should be used, anU the telegraphing of bets and publication of dividends legalised, Mr Armstrong said that all these privileges had once been allowed in New Zealand and later rejected. In the House in 1908 the then PostmasterGeneral, the late Sir Joseph Ward, had opposed the telegraphing of bets because it brought many of the employees of the Post and Telegraph Department to ruin. The Minister had been supported by Sir William Herries, an ardent follower of liorseraeing. v
“Wrong!” interjected a man from the gallery. The interjection was not loud and few people in the House were aware of it. The man was quietly ordered from the gallery by an attendant.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 10 February 1933, Page 6
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174EJECTED FROM THE HOUSE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 10 February 1933, Page 6
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