MR SPEAKER WILLIS.
ESCAPES CENSURE VOTE. GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED. THE CLOSURE APPLIED. Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. Sydney, Last Niglit. Mr Willis has asked Air AVopd, deputy Leader of the Opposition, to cut his no-eonfidence motion down to a hare expression of a want of confidence in himself. In the Assembly the Speaker, in reply to Mr Wood's request for an explanation, said the motion was cut down because the first part of it was irrelevant to the point at issue, and the House agreed to take the motion as amended by the Speak* r, making it simply a censure of the Speaker. Air Wood, in a two hours’ speech, attacked the Government for failing to take the logical course to clear up the matter of the Speaker's (lower. He claimed that the House should have the initiation and control of its own business. The Premier (Air AlcGowen) in reply, defended Air Willis, and declared there was no intention of taking the business of the House out of the hands of the Government. Air Holman, Attorney-General, moved the closure, and Air Wood's motion was negatived h.v 34 to 32. It was purely a party vote
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4395, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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193MR SPEAKER WILLIS. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4395, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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