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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11118, 5 November 1907, Page 6

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IN N.S. W.. PARLIAMENT.

"I'LL SHOOT YOU LIKE A DOG."

SYDNEY, October 25. While the tellers were taking the count of a division in the Legislative Assembly last night on a motion that the Speaker's warrant for the Elections and .Qualifications Committee be returned to him, ; ' Mr Norton remarked that members of the Opposition voting in the negative should play the same game as the Government. It was, he said, being sought to make the committee a partisan one. Mr Wood (Minister for Labor and Industry, leaning from a seat he had taken on the cross benclies) : The hon. member had better take -car© who he i6 insulting.' He will not insult me. Mr Norton : Won't I, by God ! Come oil. with your fisticuffs. Mr Wbod : The hon. member knows .'he-is protected here. Mr Norton (excitedly) : I'll shoot you like a dog. The Speaker: Order! Order! Mr Norton : Protect me from tho lion, member. He is threatening me physieal,ly. He is always talking what he will do outside. By God ! if he attempts any violence on me I'll shoot him. The Speaker: Order! Order! Mr Norton (at the top of his voice to Mr Wood) : If you come your physical fisticuffs with me I'll blow your light out: I'll out you. I'll put an end to your bullying. The Speaker : Order ! m . Mr Wood : I'm not threatening the hon. member. :I am just giving liim an expression of opinion. (To Mr Norton) : If Mr Speaker allows you to come here and. insult every member I am not -going to be one of them. Mr Norton (shrilly) : You come near me. and I'll shoot you. An Hon. Member (satiricallv) : Shoot ! Mr Norton: By God! I will. T)ie Speaker : Order ! Order ! Mr Norton continued angrily muttering and glowering across, at the Minister, until the incident ended, with the declaration of the division. Just before the House adjourned, Mr Norton rose and expressed regret at having used "certain language" towards the Chief Secretary. "I know it is wrong," said .the- member for Darling Harbor. "The only excuse I can offer is that I have been suffering terribly from my head. I have been in the dentist's chair all th© afternoon." Mr Wood! said he was glad to hear the statement just made. As far as he was personally concerned, there was no real personal feeling on' his part. He was simply referring to a remark that had been made.