VOTING INQUIRY
REPLY /TO MR HOLLAND’S PROTEST , (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 4. “ The decision to appoint a Select Committee of the House of Representatives to inquire into the organisation and methods employed for recording and dealing with the votes of servicemen in the general election was the responsibility of Parliament,” said' the Acting Prime Minister, Mr D. G. Sullivan, to-day. “The Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, should have registered his protest at the time if he desired an open inquiry. “Under the rules of the House,” Mr Sullivan added, “the press, may not be admitted to the proceedings of select committees unless the House expressly orders it. This authority for the Select Committee was not sought by,Mr Holland when he had the opportunity in the House. Mr Holland shoiild be aware of these facts, and I am surprised that he should misrepresent the position by alleging that it was the Government’s decision to’hold this inquiry in private.”
Mr Sullivan said he assumed that both the report and the whole of the evidence would be laid on the table of the House of Representatives.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25579, 5 July 1944, Page 6
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