MR HOLLAND OBJECTS TO PRESS REPORT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 90, 4 July 1930, Page 5

MR HOLLAND OBJECTS TO PRESS REPORT

MR COATES’ SPEECH iK HOUSE.

PARTIALITY ALLEGED. PARTY PAPER BUILD iAG UP WEAK CASE, lilt FORBES SAYS. Press Association —Copyright. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Leader of the Labour Party, Mr li. E. Holland, in the course of his speech in the address in reply debate this morning, diew attention to the Wellington newspaper ‘‘Dominion” report of yesterday’s proceedings in the House, and asserted that while the speech of the Leader of the Opposition had been reported comprehensively, those of the Minister of Lands, the deputyLeader of the Labour Party ai’-il the Minister of Railways had not been given the same treatment. He asked whether accommodation in the Press Gallery would be made subject to impartial reports. Mr Forbes (Premier), in reply, said the standard of impartiality in the press gallery was, generally speaking,|very high, and there was very little ground for complaint. However, in the instance mentioned by Mr Holland, he thought it was a ease of a party newspaper endeavouring to make up for the deficiency in. the Leader of the Opposition’s case by reporting his speech ‘ at great length.