A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.
Wednesday's question of breach of privilege formed a Bubject for consideration by the Reporting and Debates Committee, who found that the insertion in Hansard of the Agent-General's letter was ordered by Mr Gray, the chief of Hansard staff,, without consultation with any person outside the staff, and that the Premier had no cognisance of the fact that the letter was to appear in Hansard. Th© committee resolved- to recommend that in future, no matter which had not been read or uttered in the House, should be inserted in Hansard without the Speaker being consulted. The matter of Mr Grattan Gray's writings to a New York journal was ordered to stand over until Tuesday npxt.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 19, 14 July 1900, Page 3
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118A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 19, 14 July 1900, Page 3
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