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FIRST SECRET SESSION SINCE WAR PERIOD. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) By Telegraph.—Press Aasn.— Copyright.* Reuter's Telegrams. (Received December 4. 12.15 pm.) LONDON. December 3 In the House of Commons, Mr -M Lean’s dramatic challenge came about 4.30. when the Cutlery Safeguarding re c olution was before the committee. The discussion had lasted for twelve hours, the Opposition fighting the proposal line by line. The duty had been confirmed at 33 1-3 per cent and the question of omitting scissors was being debated when the Press was excluded. Thus for the first time since the critical days of the war, when secret. Parliament sat with closed doors. The scoret session surprised everybody in the House. The Opposition had merely hoped to obtain a division on the demand to clear the galleries, but the Ministerialists at the last moment shouted af firmatively with them, thus preventing a division. was only one member of the public in the gallery at the time, the other strangers being officials and journalists.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17711, 4 December 1925, Page 7
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