PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.
p [fbom oub Special cobbespondbnt.] | WELLINGTON, August 3. { A DBEABY FABCE. The whole afternoon has been wasted by one of those ill-timed and senseless debates which members who are afflioted with hobbies inflict on their fellow-members from time to time; Although the question of raising the school age has been twice $ut to the vote, with decisive results, this session, nothing would please that irreproachable but weak - minded gentleman, Mr T. Tanner, of placard memory, but that he must waste a whole afternoon with an abortive amendment on going into Supply, to the effect that the school age must be raised to seven. For two mortal hours did Mr Tanner and his ally and fellow-tormentor, Dr Hodgkmson, dribWe forth streams of
trickling twaddle to tho deaf ears of a ban quorum, while four-fifths of the House were parading, Lambton Quay or consuming tobacco in the lobbies. A division oi sixty-four against ten ended the drearj farce just before the dinner adjournment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6308, 4 August 1888, Page 4
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