PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21938, 23 October 1934, Page 13

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE

" J ——— Sir, —What your Parliamentary correspondent says in Monday's issue about "the unusual eo-operuLion of the Labour Party, the spirit of conciliation which has been shown during the present session, while discussion was riot perfunctory," is from the public standpoint good reading. Never quite the same before has it been seen how effectively progress can be made through the reasonableness of the Opposition. It tfan be affirmed that after making his protest in a dignified and forcible way Mr. Savage, as leader of the party, has won the appreciation of all parties in this Dominion, because public business has not been held up needlessly and now records have been made, Full Responsibility for its policy has been thrown on the shoulders of members of the Cabinet, and this Is as it should be. That members have been free at the weekends to visit their own constituencies, instead of debating through the long and weary hours of the night, must have an appreciably good effect on their health and general well-being. When we consider the political battles of the past what has happened this year can only be described as sound and peaceful reorganisation of our Parliamentary procedure, where common sense in the conduct of public business has a big place. W. K. Howitt.