SITTING TIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1926, Page 12

SITTING TIGHT

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT

ASSEMBLY'S DISAPPROVAL

ANOTHER DEFEAT RECOBDBD.

(United Preia Association.—Copyright.) (Received 21st October, 2 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. In Committee of the Assembly, the Victorian Government was again defeated, on this occasion on the Budget proposal to impose a tax of 11 per cent. on bookmakers' turnover. The voting was 31 votes to 30. Three Ministerialists and one Country Progressive voted against the Government. After the Premier's statement that the Government intended to proceed with the business, notwithstanding the previous night's vote, Mr. Hogan, Leader of the Opposition, gave notice of his intention to move a motion disapproving of the action of the Ministry, and expressing the opinion of the House that its previous decision in reference to the Caulfield accident should be conveyed to the Railway CommisI sioners. I When the House passed to other i business the Opposition bitterly attacked the Ministry for attempting to take a House into Committee to.consider the Betting Tax, while a vote of censure was hanging over it. ' The Opposition contended that no Government business should' be proceeded with until Mr. Hogan's motion, which the Government had refused to accept without notice, was dealt with. It wai upon this issue rather than upon the merits of the proposed tax that the matter was fought and the vote taken.