TONGUE-TWISTERS IN HOUSE
MEMBERS EXPERIENCE DIFFICULTIES (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) Wellington, This Day. Indications are that the word attributability is likely to prove a tonguetwistef during the approaching election campaign, since the word appeared in the Budget under the heading of war pensions. Several members of Parliament have experienced some difficulty in coping with it and in his Budget speech in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, Mr J. B. F. Cotterill (Government. Wanganui) frankly admitted that he found trouble in getting his tongue round the word, a confession which was greeted with sympathetic comments from other members. However, attributability is hardly, in the same class as pneumoconiosis, a miners’ complaint very much discussed when the House was considering amendments to the Workers’ Compensation Act.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 24 June 1943, Page 4
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