BLANKET PARADE
IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT CANBERRA, December 17. Carrying a white blanket and a green cushion, the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Blakeley, entered the House of Representatives at .1 o’clock this morning, ready for the all-night sitting on the Wheat. Bill. Placing the cushion carefully at one end of the front Labor bench, ho settled the blanket around him and lay back.
In the meantime, however, the Speaker, Mr. Makin, who was just leaving the Chamber, had quietly removed the cushion. Mr. Blakeley’s look of astonishment raised titters all over the House.' A moment later the Assistant Minister for Industry, Mr. Beasley, entered with a white blanket and a rfillow. While he avus making himself comfortable at the other end of the front, bench a similar fate befel his nijlow through tho agenev of Mr. Ppge (Labor). There was another chorus of titters. ' Undisturbed, Air. Archdale Parkhill spoke 00.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17452, 29 December 1930, Page 12
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