THE NEW DEBATING. “Have we not now a Prime Minister 'who reads his speeches? Surely there was never such a Prime Minister who did such a thing before. After all. the House of Commons is supposed to be a debating assembly, and if Mr Baldwin’s habit were to become generally followed, it would be a logical simplification for members to hand in their speeches to be circulated with the official report. Another curious tendency, which is all part of the decline of dialectics, is the now more than ever frequent introduction of a speech with the phrase: ‘I do not propose to follow the hon. member who has just -sat down.’ What elw does one go to Parliament for?’’—“Cross-Bencher.” in the “Sunday Express.”
We advise all marriage-able girls to sing plenty, especially while “ No-Rub-bing Laundry Help” is doing the weekly washing.—Ad vt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1927, Page 4
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142Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1927, Page 4
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