N.S. WALES POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15385, 23 February 1912, Page 5

N.S. WALES POLITICS

0 MR WADE'S CENSURE MOTION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrigh' SYDNEY, February 22. (Received Feb. 22, at 9 p.m.) In the Assembly to-day, at II: Speaker's suggestion, Mr Levien agree to confer with "Air Fitzpatriek, who hr also a. motion on the order paper retlcci ing on tho actions of the Speaker, wit a view to combining the two motions ini . one of a more specific character tha Mr i/ovicn's. Mr Wade's motion censuring tl i- Government w;w therefore given pvoc' o | tlwiK.'. In moving the motion Mr Wad e strongly attacked the, Government for tlii I.: missing Mr Robinson, the Hansard lcadc: t j (Received Feb. 22, at 11.40 p.m.) '. j Mr Wade argued that the conduct i h '. Ministers towards Mr Robinson, who w: iv! an old and valnwl servant, was arhitrar ft and drastic. Commenting on the Eoyi (< Comiuiosion'.s finding, ho said the ccn missioner had not had the benefit < legal assistance, and probably if author tirs on the question of joint control ha been placed before him his findings woitl have been modified. Mr M'Gowrn, in replying, said tl Speaker had power to issue iiiKiruclioi to the chief of the Hansard staiT. mid followed, therefore, tliat he had powi t to see thorn carried out. Ho oonkndc that Mr Robinson had been absolute defiant, and had followed a course whic it j if it. had been followed by any memhi 1-! of his staff would have resulted in di i missal.