PARLIAMENT AT WORK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 279, 19 August 1920, Page 6

PARLIAMENT AT WORK

I - MEMBERS GO TO FOOTBALL ___ / r /A DISCUSSION ON ISLAND ' MATTERS j; |- '.-• ; HOW BILLS ARE STOPPED 1' .'The Eonse had one of its most unproductive days yesterday. In the afteri Boon the Prime Minister was asked ifo adjourn the House to allow members U> go | to the football match, and he agreed, h avtng received a promise that some extra j " work would be done in the evening. The only proißsting member was Mr. Holj land. Having recorded his protest he went home, and did not come back to the !• House during the .whole of the sitting. f i The whole of the evening sitting wa"s lilaken up with a discussion of Cook •SuaSus- affairs, the debate being provoked by the presentation of the annual i ;report of the Cook Islands Department by Dr. Pomare. The discussion was ! remarkable for the divergence of testimony given by different members as to [.: what they had seen on their visit to t,he islands with the Parliamentary Party. f.-'. The Minister made a spirited reply to criificism. There was room for sus- |. picion that the discussion was prolonged in order to hold up a private member's £' y Bill which was on. the order paper for life day. There will be no more pri- [■•;.,- ,vafce members'days this session., ';.'' '"■'; .The House rose at 0.45 a.m.