SOME QUESTIONS OF CONSISTENCY
After Ministers had answered a few unimportant questions iu the House of Representatives last night, Mr. Statham (Dunedin Central) moved the second reading of his Elective Executive. Bill. Ho had been promised this opjiortunity by the Prime Minister, and his Bill was under discussion until after midnight, before it was refused a second reading by a majority of tho House. Jinny arguments that were familiar to the House in years when an Elective Executive Bill was nn annunl institution were advanced during the debate. Mr. Statham spent much tamo reading from Hansard to show that various members of the House, in the Ministry and out of it, had supported the elective Executive principle: in other years. His appeal -to consistency was rather spoiled by his 'admission, in reply to an interjection, that he himself hud voted against the chango he was now proposing. . The Prime Minister declared that a.i,elected Ministry' would be unworkable', since it would include men who could not agree on matters of policy. His experience in the National Government, he said, had proved to him that a' Cabinet divided on policy questions wil'd make no progress. . '
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 20, 19 October 1920, Page 8
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193SOME QUESTIONS OF CONSISTENCY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 20, 19 October 1920, Page 8
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