COMING SESSION
POLITICAL JOTTINGS,
WELLINGTON, May 31
Another sign that the coming session is to bo more than ordinarily interesting is the re-arrangement of the House of Representatives to meet the remarkably changed conditions following the last election. The front seats to tho loft of Mr Speaker have to he shared hv the Nationalists and Labour leaders, for both parties combined can only just fill one quarter of the representative chamber. Air Holland will be within easy conversational distance of Air Forbes, the Nationalist leader. But stranger still will be the change in party, rooms, as the leader of the Opposition, Afr Holland, is being'allocated the suite formerly used by Afr AVilford and finally by Afr Forbes as leader of the Opposition. This set of offices, close to the entrance to the old Parliament Building,’ now the library wing, is the old Cabinet room of the tSeddon Government. Its double doors, built to help in the preservation of Cabinet secrets, still remain and will servo to help the Labourites to keep their caucus discussions quite priviatc. The Nationalists are to have a couple of rooms in the new building. Afembers who have paid a visit to AVcllingtrm since tho elections have been criticising the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives, and there is likely to be a good deal of alteration in these arrangements when tho session commences. There .Are even rumours of a slight re-alignment of parties due to personal grievances, but these may be discounted, as members were elected on deficit pledges. The suggestion is that tho Nationalists may secure sufficient support from disgruntled Reformers to retain their old position as the official Opposition, but in view of the point already mentioned this chance is.highly slender, and so far as tns House officials are concerned their allocation of the old Seddonian Cabinet room to Afr Holland and his supporters indicates their view that the question of tho official Opposition is -quite settled.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1926, Page 4
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326COMING SESSION Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1926, Page 4
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