NEW SOUTH WALES ASSEMBLY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 80, 27 November 1912, Page 8

NEW SOUTH WALES ASSEMBLY.

MR. SPEAKER WILLIS

A PROTRACTED SITTING

Sydney, November 26. In the- Assembly there was another protracted sitting on the Estimates. The Parliamentary Estimates, revised by Mr. Willis, included an increase in his own salary from £IOOO to £.1500, an increase of £l6O for the Chairman of Committees, and a new item of DiUU for a deputy-chairman of committees. Mr. Willis was out of the Chamber. Members made the most of the _ opportunity for untrammelled criticism. His occupancy of the chair ,was characterised as a reign of terror, and lie himself as impertinent, a “tinpot tyrant,” “bowdleriser of Hansard,” “a freak Heaven-born organiser,” and “a political bandit.” Mr Lonsdale thought that the people associated with the Speaker ought bo get higher salaries because of tiie indignities they had to suffer. Eventually all the proposed increases were negatived on the voices. (Received 27, 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, November 27. Questioned as to whether it was intended to borrow a million and a half to complete the three million loan, whereof only half had recently been secured, Mr. McCann replied in the affirmative.