PARLIAMENTARY NOTES
DAY OF MISUNDERSTANDING. MEMBERS IN BITTER MOOD. ALLEGED BREACH OF FAITH. (Special Parliamentary Reporter.) PRESS GALLERY, Monday. Friday seems to have been a day of misunderstandings in the House. One result is that the House will sit Lonight to put through Government business, and thus will be inaugurated Monday night sittings for the- session. Members left for their homes early on Saturday morning in a spirit of bitterness and unless wise counsels prevail in the meantime they will be in the same frame of mind tc-night According to the Government's viewpoint it had been arranged that on Friday the Railways Statement would be debated and that the estimates for that Department and for others would be put through, and it is contended on their behalf that this agreement was broken.
On the other hand the Opposition say that no such agreement was made, and they charge the Government with a breach of faith.
As it is within the power of the Opposition to keep the House to-night from going into committee on the estimates by debating until half past twelve a motion that Mr Speaker leave the chair, it is possible that the Government may make a counter move by bringing forward other business.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17221, 3 October 1927, Page 7
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