PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.
YESTERDAY’S BUSINESS. DEBATE ON RAILWAY STATEMENT. HOUSE TO SIT ON MONDAY. (Special Parliamentary Reporter.) PRESS GALLERY, Saturday. Railway matters commanded the attention of members of the House yesterday. It had been intended to dispose of the remaining items on the estimates but the debate on the annual railways statement, opportunity for which was provided by special motion moved by the Prime Minister, lasted sunicienlly long to render such a course impracticable, only the railway ' vote, £6,571,945 being dealt with. Tiie discussion on the Railways Statement, which followed general lines, was enlivened by Mr F. F. Hockly's (Rotorua) references to the recently-passed Daylight Saving Bill, and a dispute over Labour’s claim to instrumentality in securing more extended use of New Zealanßd coal on railways. When the Prime Minister replied after midnight lie had a warm brush witii Mr 11. Alrnore (Nelson). After the railway vole was passed the Prime Minister said if the classes of estimates arranged to he taken were not gone on with, he would ask the House to sit on Monday night. On a division the motion that the House adjourn till Monday night was carried by 33 votes to 11.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17220, 1 October 1927, Page 7
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