SUMMER RECESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 181, 5 August 1935, Page 7

SUMMER RECESS

THE COMMONS ADJOURNS TO DE SUMMONED IF CRISIS ARISES [ British Official Wireless. | RUGBY, Aug. 2. Ihe House of Commons adjourned this afternoon until October 29. b I’he practice which has become usual in recent years of providing in the resolution for an earlier convocation by the Speaker on representation by tlie Government that such 3 course i*i necessary in the pttbiic interest was followed, and reference to this provision was made by the Foreign Secretary, Sii Samuol Hoare, at the end of last night’s debate on international affairs, in reply to a member who asked if Parliament would bo called together in the. event of a grave crisis arising out of the situation of deep and genuine anxiety to which Sir Samuel Hoare had alluded earlier. 'l’he Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, has a speaking engagement in t_he country at the week-end, after which he hopes to leave for 4 holiday at Aix-les-Bains, France, and it has been arranged that during his absence abroad the President of ths Council, Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, will be tne Acting Prime Minister.