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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 36, 7 September 1905, Page 17

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It matters^ a good dflal, after all, whose ox is gored. In the course of his remarks during last week's debate on the broach of Parliamentary privilege, by the reverend chairman of the Bible-in-schools Executive, tine Premier expressed the hope that Dr. Gifolb had sent the offending letters inadvertently ' anti^did not realise what he was doing. If,' continued Mr. Sedtlon, ' it had been a clergyman of another denomination who had sent these letters, there would have been no hesitation about the matter amongst hon. Members in regarding it as a breach of privilege. They would hme brought him before the bar of the House and finod him.' ' And sent him to gaol ' added Mr. Hawkins. ' Probably that,' said Mr. Soddon. We "do not profess to know what our legislators would do in such a ca^e. They would probably ' tear around considerable ' We have our own ideas as to Dr. Gibb's action and tlhe censure passed upon him by the Legislature. Wei 'are not, however, called upon to express therm here. But we have no manner of doubt; as to what the Bible-in-sohools clergy and their organs in the religious press would do in the circumstances contemplated) jbjy Mr. Seddon. They would order the 'Romish' cleric to pack his portmanteau, step off this planet, aai/d betake himself to Mars— or elsewhere.