UNDIGNFIED CEREMONIAL
It is only in recent times that the business of swearing members of a new parliament has become so decorous as it is nowadays, and the system introduced by Mr Speaker Whitely has helped to make more comfortable what used to be an unpledsant duty. Thirty years ago, says the "Daily Chronicle," an observer remarked llow strange it was that, in the centuries, we had evolved nothing better than "a mass of members, hot, ruffled and angry, squeezing to get through a narrow way leading between the benches and the table to the clerk who administers the oath."
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12074, 27 February 1925, Page 4
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