“NOT EVEN A DRINK”
A GOVERNOR’S RECEPTIONS 1 MELBOURNE, July 14. Declaring that the ceremonies connected with government were “silly rot,” Mr Webber (Labour, Richmond) moved in the Legislative Assembly that the office, of State Governor of Victoria should be abolished. "We don’t even get a drink,” he said, referring to the levee on the King’s Birthday. “You simply walk up, you are hunched in a lobby like a flock of sheep, you file into the Queen’s Hall, where His Excellency shakes hands and immediately forgets you, and you pass out and go home, and don’t even get a drink 1” Mr Webber said that if the House did not support the motion in its entirety he was prepared to accept an amendment that imported State Governors be abolished ia favour of Australians. The motion was defeated by 29 votes to 27. Hr-Toucher (Nationalist) voted with' the Labour Party.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12201, 28 July 1925, Page 11
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