A Parliamentary Notebook

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 8

A Parliamentary Notebook

A Weary Sitting (THE SUN'S Parliamentary Report*) WELLINGTON, To-diy. Parliament is full of unexpectel eventualities, and to-day was no elcepticn. The House started disc tiling the Income Tax Bills early in till afternoon, and carried on so late iW the estimates which had been arranged lor were still untouched c:on on midnight, when the agricultural vote came up for discussion. Thi House sat wearily on till 12.30. The Prime Minister, the Rt Hoi. .1. G. Coates, has intimated taat the House would receive the tariff rear lutioDs on Tuesday. On Wednesday members would deal with the Sumner Time Bill. The Legislative Council passed tbt War Funds Amendment Bill flu War Disabilities Removal Bill. Ft* the latter measure it deleted he clause which was designed to remove the civil disabilities which were imposed on military defaulters diirM the war. ri: Up the Apple Tree “The storm of protest that has met the Hon. W. Downie Stewart’s tH* - tion proposals veil) fce a bitter pill - or him," said the Leader of the Oppcsr tion, Mr. H. E. Holland, this afternoon, “but apparently he is goiig to f *“" low it.” “It might choke him.” suggested Mr. W. E. Parry, Auckland Central. Mr. Holland: There am bound to be evil effects, but he's going to swallow it. , A voice: What are the results liKt to be? . Mr. Holland: Perhaps th. disappearance of the Minister of Finance. Later Mr. Holland said that** Downie Stewart was like a boy cans in an orchard. After promising notw steal the apples, he was found up tree, and could give no satirise • explanation of why he was there Mr. P. Fraser, Wellington He could say he was putting aPI on! (Laughter.) Nobody Dragooned It is not often the Minister of cation, the Hon. R. A. WngW-j cornered, but he found himself his back against the wall in the of Representatives to-night _ w n<’ Ing a shower of interjections the Opposition benches. ~««> Mr. Wright was refuting the sul* tioi that there had been a duP the Reform caucus over taxation _ and said that the Prime M:nls effectively blown out this rsp Y |t« subject had not been discussed _ £( caucus but had been talked omembers themselves. ; w htt * voted for it did so knowirg TTl “‘- n * , rh wa3 yonrpaff Mr. P. Fraser. Then y not consulted? . .h-njgiA Mr. Wright hes.tat.ed and tn “Oh, well ” , Mr. J. A. Lee: Hook out• w([ i Mr. Wright, recovering. V? j, H nobody was dragooned, a °T? nister sd' l no secret that the Prime - - ■ I do not see eye to eye social questions, tut it It trof the Prime Minister tnj yC ur said notiiing ro me excepr ? to* pledges.” This is a mam.. 4 mi® and he deserves to be c - i for it.