PARLIAMENT'S LIFE
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•WELLINGTON, Last. N-igat. "There/ wiil be a general |leetion next year, 1 1 declax'ed the Prime Min-i-ter, the Et. Hon. M- J- Sayage, in a statement: issued tp.-night in reply to tlio Christchureh critieism of the romarks ' he inadc last woek on .tne subject of the lifo of Parliament. ' 4 'The Labour Party phjceted to tho Coalifion Gpvorximexit's pktension of tlie normal iife 'of ' tho last Pai-iiament by one'year," *saicl Mr Savagp. " 4 ' It objeeted also to the* ext.ensiQn being ahade stafix'torily perxnaxienf an'A to the inetliods by, 'which the exfpnsipn was mado in defianee of public, opinion against. any other change* in* fhe law. The Labour G6verjxmphT ip.Yf- " objeets to tho perpefuation of the'" ipur-year Parliamentary t'eriix/ The ' present law will be fepealed this yedr4 fln futurd if there slxould be any suggestion about "another alteration^ the consent qf the people xnust first be obtained" before any further change is mpde. by the. Labour Governmeiit. ''
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 175, 11 August 1937, Page 4
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