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POINT or ORDER ON MEMBER’S QUESTION Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 7. In a notice of question to the Minister of National Service when the House met to-day Mr. C. G. CL Ilarker asked whether the Minister would 'take steps to see that the police force was supplied with the necessary equipment to carry out the duties allotted to it under tho E.P.B. scheme. He contended that the police force in Wellington was without adequate supplies of stretchers, disinfectants, rubber gloves, steel helmets, overalls and other necessary equipment. ►Speaking to a point of order the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) submitted that it was not tho proper use of either a question or a note to a question to maice such a statement. As a matter of fact it was not the proper use to make of a note to a question when something was contained in it that was not supported by facts. The Bpeaker (Hon. W. E. Barnard) said statements should be carefully checked and it was not correct for questioners to include in a question something that might be a matter of hearsay or that he could not personally vouch for.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 239, 8 October 1941, Page 4
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