“THE HURDLE RACE."
N.S.W. GOVERNMENT. THE SPEAKERSHIP DIFFICULTY. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) SYDNEY, Sunday. The Chief Secretary, Mr. Dooley, speaking at the building trades’ picnic, and referring to the evenness of. the parties and the selection of a Speaker, declared, that the only result. of blocking the Government from, getting a.Speaker would be that' they would go straight to the country again. IThe Government was running a hurdle race, and might not clear the “Speakership” hurdle, but if they could not negotiate it cleanly they would not try to crawl under it. There might be another election . before some people thought. Dealing with the movement for it forty-four hour week, ho said there nvas nothing very extraordinary in the de'maml, but the method of achieving it was debatable. He had no desire todictate to the unions on the matter.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14100, 19 April 1920, Page 5
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