NOT BLIND PARTY MEN.
MR, MASSEY AND HIS FOLLOWERS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "Chronicle.") WELLINGTON, Oct. 23
Tho unity of th-e Reform Party in the House of Representatives has often been demonstrated in times of political conflict, but when the interests -of the party are n6t at stake, Government supporters assert, in no uncertain way, their individual freedom of thought and action. This was exemplified to-night, when, within an hour, tho House was twice divided by Government members, who had s€t their faces against legislative proposals approved by the Ministry.
Mr Statham (Dunedin Central) divided the House in an unsuccessful protest against a clause in the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Amendment Bill, making divorce easier in cases where one party to a marriage is confined in a mental hospital. Afterwards, Dr A. K. Newman (Wellington" 54ast) engaged in a controversy with the Prime Minister about a clause m tho Land Bill relating to the minimum w.id'th of strfeofts. M,r Miasseiy/ maintained that it was necessary in some cases to permit streets to be formed of a less width than 66 feet. Dr. Nawman maintained as strongly that it was not. In the division that followed, victory again went to the Minister, Mr. Massey's view of the matter being affirmed by 42 votes to 13
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 24 October 1912, Page 5
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