REQUEST TURNED DOWN
MICROPHONE IN HOUSE MEMBERS’ TRAVEL COSTS (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. “It is regretted that the request cannot -be given favorable consideration.” This was the reply given by the Hon. A. Hamilton, in the House yesterday, to a recent suggestion of Mr. D. AteDongall (Goal., Mataura) that a microphone should be installed in Parliament
so chat listeners could hear members' speeches as they were delivered. Mr. MeDougail also inquired whether consideration would be given to the question of replacing members’ railway passes by an annual grant as a means of saving expenditure under the legislative vote.
“The railway badge,?’ replied Sir Apirana Ngat-.t, the Minister in charge, “has been so long associated with members of Parliament that they would, 1 think, Ire lotli to give it up. The question of the charge made for travel facilities granted to members is under the consideration of the Government."’
Gn the ground of the cost involved, the. Government, according to a reply given to Mr. A. Harris (Coal., Waitemata), will not make available to members of the Legislature, free of cost, copies of sets of the reprint of the New Zealand statutes.’’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17945, 24 November 1932, Page 6
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