AMUSING COMEDY
COMMONS COUNTED OUT. AN ADJOURNMENT. LONDON, March 9. As the result of an amusing comedy the House of Commons was counted out at 6 p.m. to-day. ►Sir Charles Falls (Ulster Unionist, Fermanagh and Tyrone), taking the first opportunity in 19 years of submitting a private member’s motion, moved complaining of the treatment of invalided naval men. The attendance in tho House was very small and the Labour members two or three times drew attention to this, but the quorum of 40 was always found.
Later, however, a Unionist member drew attention to the state of the House, and the bells were rung. Only 36 were then present, Labour members absenting themselves deliberately, imagining that the count out would only entail an adjournment until evening, when Mr Mosley intended to move a resolution with the object of recommending the Labour Party’s finance policy. Labour members were surprised and Ministerialists chuckled when it was learned that the count out jpXailcd an adjournment until the next
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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165AMUSING COMEDY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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