LEGISLATIVE TURMOIL IN NEW SOUTH WALES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIV, Issue 83, 24 December 1926, Page 6

LEGISLATIVE TURMOIL IN NEW SOUTH WALES

THE GARRUTHERS MOTION 'ANOTHER VITaL REVERSE FOR. {■■: (Received 10:$) a.m.) * ,<fe SYDNEY. December 24... Xn the Legislative Council ; Fir Joseph Oarrruthers' moving motion tiuow'Acts of Parliament passed in Victoria and Tasmania requiring fourteen days' jtotice when Parliament was summoned before the due date of expiry of the prorogation. He said that in all his forty ■•years' ex•periehce of public life he knew of ho instance where the Premier had broken his word like Mr Lang;: The motion was then carried by 41 votes to 39. The Government laterv sustained a vital reverse, Mr Robson moving that debate on 'the Appropriation/ Rip be adjourned until Januarv IHh, tHi? date on. which it was originally intended that Parliament should 'i l & assemble. This was carried by 40 to 39 votes. This has the effect of postponing the Budget until that date. The Council then passed the.- fi " ' reading of tlie Publications Tax Bill. The child endowment scheme will 1 " retrospective to December loth.,,the date of the declaration of the taslo wage.