ALLEGED BREACH OF FAITH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3700, 6 October 1927, Page 3

ALLEGED BREACH OF FAITH.

OPPOSITION RESENTMENT.

When the House of Representatives met on Monday night for the first Monday sitting of the session, Opposition members were in a mood of resentment against the Prime Minister for having brought them back by the carrying of his surprise motion, in the early hours of Saturday morning. The Leader of the Opposition charged Mr. Coates with having been guilty of a breach of faith, and asserted that an arrangement made with the Opposition with reference to the transaction of Friday night’s business had not been kept. Mr. Coates having moved that Mr. Speaker leave the chair in order that the House should go into Committee of Supply, Mr. Fraser raised certain questions with regard to the affairs of the Wellington Education Board. This raised a sharp debate which continued until nearly midnight. Ab 12 o’clock, Mr. Coates rose to reply to the charge which Mr. Holland had levelled against him. He denied that he had been guilty of a breach of faith, and followed this up by accusing the Opposition of having delayed the Government’s programme of business. Declaring that the day of reckoning had come, Mr. Coates plainly intimated that the Government intended to put its legislation through irrespective of what hours the House sat. At 12.15 a.m., the House went into Committee of Supply on Estimates and before adjourning at 1.20' o’clock passed seven classes, the sitting thus being more profitable than had been anticipated at the outset.