THE SESSION END.
HOW LEGISLATORS FEEL THIS WEEK. "WK WANT TO GO HOME!" By Telegraph. (Special tp.Oamaru Mail.) • Wellington, October 19. Wellington members dare much they talk iii-the House of Representatives • this-week.- -Even - a moderate amount -of loquacity raises a -cry °* "Let's get home. Yon live in A\ elluigton. We don't." Yesterday the Prime Minister indicated that legislators would have to stay a few days longrt" than they had hoped. Sir Joseph Ward stated that ho tlid not propose to ask the Hon.se to sit on Saturday. Local Bills could be considered on Monday morning, aiul it the business was sufficiently forward the House could end its work on Tuesday. There had been a disposition to talk, and he did liot think it possible, except at great inconvenience and late sittings, to finish oil Saturday. Members: Moiulav is Labor D;iy. Mr Massev: Labor Day for us. Sir Joseph Ward suggested that the holi'lnv lie ©ixserved by an aitornooii otf, but, as tbe work must be done, he could not promise this unless the House sat on Saturday morning. The business ought to be completed early in the week. . , Mr Massev: And after that, the deluge. - Sir Joseph Ward: Yes, the deluge.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10902, 20 October 1911, Page 4
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201THE SESSION END. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10902, 20 October 1911, Page 4
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