AIR IN THE LORDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

AIR IN THE LORDS

GETTING WINDOWS OPENED . It is not a simple matter Retting a window opened in the House of PeersOne does not, if ho wants a window opened or shut in the House of Lords, merely say to someone, " You might open that window. Smith,or " \ou might close that window, Brown." Oh, dear no! The Most Honourable the Marquis of Linlithgow, K.C., G.C.1.E., 2nd Marquis and 10th Baronet, thinks tho windows might be opened sometimes, and he recently, in ruidsummer, tabled a question on the subject: this 138-word ques'ion: — "To ask His Majesty's Government when the windows of this chamber wen* last opened, and to move to resolve that tho appropriate officer bo given standing instructions to open all upper 'windows in the chamber immediately the Houso rises, and if the outside temperature be warm enough, that some or all of these bo left open during the sitting of the House; and if wea'her conditions require that the same be closed during the sitting of the House, that they are to remain open until within one hour of the appointed tim? .for the next sitting of tho House, except that at times when tha outside temperature requires that they b« closed earlier in order to raise the temperature of the House to tho appointed level, they shall be so closed the discretion of the responsible officer."