RETURN TO PARTY WARFARE.
SIR FRANCIS BELL’S HOPE,
'•'This is the last session I have (ho right to my position here; my term expires shortly,” said Sir Francis Bell, in the Legislative Council, at the close of last session) '•lf I come hack next session I am looking forward like a schoolboy to the old political fighting, in which I engaged in (lie first years of my office.” Sir Francis alluded to the passing of the Legislative Council Amendment Act, as having placed the Council again in a proper constitutional position and saving- it from extinction. “I hope,” he said, “(hat we shall he free men to play (lie political game as free men should, and stand and speak free from l!ie bonds that have been observed by members so that we might appear as a united Parliament before the world.” He hoped the Council would resume the part it took before the war of being a true Second Chamber, taking care that no legislation was passed with on I due notice to the country of what was intended, and lbat the statutes expressed the intention of Parliament.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1917, 19 December 1918, Page 3
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188RETURN TO PARTY WARFARE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1917, 19 December 1918, Page 3
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