DISMISSED OFFICIALS

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1930, Page 9

DISMISSED OFFICIALS

MOTION OF PROTEST

CLOSE DIVISION ENSUES,

PROPOSAL DEFEATED BY ONE VOTE.

(From Our Parliamentary Special.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

By a margin of only one vote, the motion by Mr A. Harris (Waitemata) to reduce the Post and Telegraph Department vote by £9,, as a protest against the non-reinstatement of the Departmental officers dismissed at Auckland for divulging 'information contained in telegrams, was defeated in fthc House of Representatives yesterday.

Declaring that a gross miscarriage of justice had taken place, which reflected discredit on the Al.blister and the Department, Air Harris pleaded for the support of -all who opposed spy tactics and tapping of telephone wires. The division resulted in the defeat of the motion by 32 votes to 31. The division list w-as as follows; — For the Amendment (31). Armstrong Ale Keen Barnard Macmillan Black Afartin Carr Alassey Chapman Alburn Dickie Nash, W. Fletcher O’Brien Fraser Rushworth Hall Samuel Harris Savage Holland, H. E. Semple Jordan Sullivan Kyle W-aito Langstone Wilkinson Lye Wright McCombs Against the Amendment (32), Ansell Linklater Atmore ATcDonabl Bitcbener Macpherson Broadfoot Alakitanara Clinkard Alimns | Cobbo Alurdoch Perello Nash, J; 'A. Donald Nga.ta Endean Poison Hamilton Smith Hawke- Sykes Healey Taverner Henare Veitch Hogan Ward Holland, H. Williams Jones Young Pairs. For—-Parry, Howard. Against—-Stallworthy, Ransom.