POLITICAL NOTES
SATURDAY IN PARLIAMENT
The House of Representatives set out with high hopes of doing a lot of work and passing eight local Bills on Saturday afternoon. An Auckland Bill, however, which dealt with the lossl water supply, proved too much for some of the Auckland Labour members to stomach and, like the brook, these members gave every evidence of being able to run on for ever with diluted and undiluted arguments as to why the Bill should be dammed in order to stem its flowing on to the Statute Book. They damned the Bill from the very source of the discussion, threatened that some 200 amendments would flow into it as tributaries from the mountains of reason if it trickled into the Committee stages, and the upshot was that the river of talk suddenly went into subterranean channels at 5.30 o'clock with the adjournment of the debate and. the rising of the House until 2.30 p.m. to-day.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 8
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