YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
STANDING ORDERS REVISED SITTING HOURS APPROVED (By Telegraph) (From “The Mail’s” Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, 2nd August, The House of Representatives was occupied this afternoon with a debate of a more or less domestic, nature on the recommendations of the committee set up during the recess to revise the Standing Orders. The proposal to curtail speeches on the Address-in-Reply to half an hour and the recommendation that newspapers be not circulated in the chamber when the House is sitting were the principal topics of discussion. Before adjourning at 5.30 o’clock for the week-end approval was given to the first portion of the recommendations including hours of sitting which will lie from 2.30 till 10.30. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and 10.30 a.m. lo 5.30 p.m. on Friday. The debate will be resumed next Tuesday afternoon, and in the evening the House will commence a Jong debate on the Financial Statement which is expected to last for at least a fortnight.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 3 August 1929, Page 5
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