DEBATES BE-DARNED
■Members of the House of Representatives kiiow a variety of ways of filling in time in a seemingly intenninable debate. 80111 e read their home-town newspapers, some answer letters from tlieir constituents, some hold whispered discussions with their neighbours. Some have even been known to go to sleep. But it fell to Mr. Clyde Carr (Timaru) at Saturdat'ks sitting to introduce an occupation that seemed to observers to be entirely new. He spread out on tho seat beside hini a pair of wliat seemed to be his own striped grev socks, took out darning needle and one of those wooden gadgets that are pressed down into the lieel, and set to wo rk. This occupation seemed to keep Mr. Carr quiet and happy until he felt called upon to rise and support a point of order. He laid aside his work and said his piece. Then he sat down again, rethreaded his ne.edle, and at-tacked the; next hole.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 October 1946, Page 5
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