"ALL SPORTS"

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 279, 19 August 1920, Page 4

"ALL SPORTS"

MEMBERS GO TO THE FOOTBALL.

Tho House of Representatives adjourned yosterday afternoon owing to the desire of a number of the members to attend the big Rugby match. A number of requests had been raado to the Prime Minister in the course of the morning, and immediately i'Jio House met Air. Mtt made a definite proposal to Mr. Massey that the House should adjourn. He' said that football was tho national snort, of New Zealand, aud ill was a very clean sport. He was personally anxious to be present at the match, and he knew that many members also wished to be r there. He suggested also that ill would bo a fitting compliment to the boys who had so creditably represented New Zealand in Australia if the House adjourned. Mr. Isitif said that members would bo quite prepared to sit an extra two hours in the evening to make up for the time lost.' ~,,, The request was supported by Mr. W. S. Glenn, who in his younger days was a member of the famous "All Blacks,". Mr. Massey rose to his feet 6niiling and members applauded, evidently tak • ing the smile as a good omen. He said that the request was one he found hard to resist, and he did not know that ho would be able to resist it* especially as members had said they.would bo prepared to sit later in the evening. Mr. Witty: Would you do the 6amo for the races? > Mr. Massey: "No, I cannot make any promise like that." Ho went on to say that he would not placn any difficulties in members' way. "We are nil sports, I hope," he 6aid, "and I think we are all proud of the record of our boys in Australia." ... Mr. Nash: It is the. feeling of members that tlhey would '.ike the Prime Minister to accompany them to the match. Mr. Massey: Thank you very much. It was arranged at length that tho House should get: through some of the formal business, and then adiourn. , Questions were still uncompleted when Mr. Massey moved tho adjournment at a quarter to three. Just before the House rose Mr. Holland said: "I just want iV> record my protest against adjourning the House to go to a football match." One other honourable member said "Hear, hear," but in somewhat ironical tones.