POTHER OVER PARLORS.
FACILITIES FOR COURTING.
ANGRY LABOR M.P.'S.
LONDON, April 25.—Houses with pariors, or houses without parlors—the question is a burning one in politics in view of the Government's housing programme. , .
The Independent wing of tho Labor Party, of which Mr. Ramsay Macdonald is chairman, has issued a manifesto, in the course of which it asks:—"Where will a man court his sweetheart if tho» parlor is aboloshed?" Labor members of the House of Convmons strongly resented the references to> this subject of Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Minister for Health, who said that He doubted whether "opportunities for sweethearting" would be apparently diminished if parlors were abolished. Mr. Chamberlain quoted one schedule that included a parlor 10ft. 6in. by 9ft. 3in.
Labor members (scornfully): Oh! Mr. Chamberlain: That's big enough to court in.
This throw the Labor benches into an uproar, and Mr. Kirkwood demanded that Mr. Chambei-lain should explain what he meant. "It's an insult!" he cried.
The Speaker calmed the House, and Mr. Chamberlain dropped the subject.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16121, 9 May 1923, Page 3
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