POLITICAL
MARKING TIME. A DISGRACEFUL WASTE. (By Telegraph—Pariiamentary Reporter.) Wellington. Last Night. The House rose shortly after 11 p.m. to-night, and it is no exaggeration to say that' from 2.30 p.m. up to that hour the time of Parliament was absolutely wasted. Hour after hour members drivelled and maundered and attempted to say something which did not matter. The country is looking for votes. It wants to know who is going to vote for the Government and who is going to put his little bit towards the new political regime which has been so long in coming, but has not yet arrived. Parliament costs the country many pounds for every minute it sits. Members <r>t £3OO a year for their services, and in'the most Ib'Strant manner they waste time with no other object in view than to keen things going until it suits the party leaders to take a division. Whatever the result of the division mav be. anv one sufficiently interested would find that this procss lets cost the country not hundreds but thousands of pounds. Economy in Parliamentirv procedure is a problem that is not easily solved, and its solution will onlv hrcin'wlicu the lmhlie realises the extent to which it is mulcted by the contending parties.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 317, 5 July 1912, Page 5
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