BRITISH PARLIAMENT
’ "stralia & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON. Dee. I. In the Commons Air Neil .McLean's dramatic challenge came about 1.30 when the cutlery safeguarding resolution was before the committee. The discussion had lasted twelve hours, the Op"ositiiii lighting the proposal lino by line. The duty has been continued at thirty-three and a third per cent, and ihe question of omitting scissors was being debated when the press was cxi hided, thus fur the first time since Ihe critical days of the war. when the sessions were secret and Barliameiit: sat with closed doors.
The secret session surprised evorybodv in the House.
The Opposition had merely hoped to obtain a division on their demand I" clear the galleries, hut the Alinisteralists at the last moment shouted affirmatively with them, thus preventing a division. There was only one member of (.he public in the gallery al the lime, the only other strangers being ollieials and journalists.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1925, Page 3
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154BRITISH PARLIAMENT Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1925, Page 3
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