WELLINGTON NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, June 21.

Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 65

WELLINGTON NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, June 21.

Another of the new .Ministers has. been cruiM-iy double iViin^ the short session of I-arlian-cnt. which dos-od the other r'"v. The Hon. Roderick M'Keiv.ie and tho Hon. the Spsnkcr got at loggerheads le^irdinij the control of Parliament House. The Speaker, a* everyone knows, i*. supposed to have control' .vliilc Parliament is m .'ession. but the new Minister of Public Works wanted in:itt-er> arranged jn h's own way. The iuwMp leached a oilminatniir point when th-e .Spe-iker found l-liat the Minister of Public Works had turned Mr Wilford. the new Chairman of Comjnittee.=. out of the ioom allocated to h'<m. Thereupon tl-e Speaker at once a=serte<! hi^ authoritw and ordeied the Public Works art i 1 - ?. us out of the building. The resolution authorising the Speaker to have change of the build Lug was passed on September 11, 1882. on the motion of Major Alkhv-on. itrrl road as fo'low.«: — "Re solved, thai the Government shall have the custody of the Paiiii!V..ent Building ond be responsible for all ovpendilure thereon durinsr the rec-es?. and that on the meeting of the General Ap-semblv the charge be taken o\ci and expen/li'ure conliolled by the Speakeis and committees appointed for U:e purpose."