FORCING THE LORDS TO A TIME LIMIT.
SUGGESTED BY THE 'STARVING' PROCESS ADOPTED IN THE MAORI PARLIAMENT.
Premier Seddon (to Speaker of the Legislative Council) : Look here, Mr Millar, we are going to follow the tactics of the Maori Parliament, and have decided that your members shall subsist on one meal a day until this batch of bills has been passed. Hon. Speaker L.C. : Ah, ah, Seddon, if you think starving will do it, you make a tuistake ; but close the bar at Bellamy's, and you might.
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Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 911, 13 June 1896, Page 1
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