Summer Time

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 8

Summer Time

Third Reading Passed House Applauds Mr. Sidey (THE SUSS Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, To-day. !T was a weary House that listened last evening to a further talk upon'the third reading of the Summer Time Bill. Mr. T. K. Sidey was congratulated from all sides upon his success, and Sir Joseph Ward said that in all his long expo, - ence of Parliamentary life he had never seen so magnificent a tribute paid to any man as that given .Mr. Sidey this morning when the whole House applauded the finishing ol lus work.

Some members took up time in repeating their second-reading and com-mittee-stage contentions upon Mr. Sidey’s measure, but these speeches were merely sandwiched in between lengthy comments upon reproaches for and support of the attack of Mr. Glenn upon Mr. Jordan, as reported in another column. It must have been indeed galling to Mr. Sidey to have to listen for hours to

%%%%%% % % % & % % & * as what members of the Labour Party variously described as “electioneering propaganda” or “another method of prolonging the debate on the Summer Time Bill” by “drawing” Labour members to speak. However Mr. Sidey endured the flow of argument and recrimination with the patience for jvhich he has become famous. It was not until ten minutes after midnight that he was given an opportunity to reply, though, as he said, side issues and insinuations of one sort and another had crept in, and he was not

left as much to reply to as had been the case on former occasions. The statement submitted by the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, regarding investigations made by the Railway Department, disclosed remarkably few cases which could not be met by timetable adjustment, and lie felt certain that if people were anxims to adapt themselves to altered conditions they would be able to do so. NO COMPACT WITH LABOUR Mr. Sidey characterised as absurd and ridiculous the suggestion which had been made that he had entered into a compact with the Labour Party or any other members of the House in respect to acceptance of amendments He expressed his thanks to the Prime Minister, who had played the game, and to the Leader of the Opposition and Mr. M. J. Savage for their action in postponing their bills so that the Summer Time Bill could come on, though Mr. Sidey made it clear that he had not actively sought this arrangement. He also thanked the Senior Whips, Messrs. Dickson, Sullivan and Ransom, for the help they had given him. FINAL DIVISION The final division was called for by Mr. Eliott at 0 40 a.m., and the third reading was agreed to by- 29 votes to 14. The bill was then passed. The division list was as follows: For Bill, 29 Armstrong Luke Atmore H. G. R. Mason Bar tram J. Mason Bell Nash Bellringer Nos worthy Buddo Potter Dickie P. J. Rolleston J. S. Dickson Savage Forsyth Sidey Fraser Waite Girling Walter Harris "Ward H. Holland Wright Howard Young Kyle Against Bill, 14— Bitchener Hockley Coates Hunter J. M. Dickson Linklater Eliott Pomare Field J. C. Rolleston Glenn Samuel Hawken Williams PAIRS For. —Horn. Ransom, McCombs, Seddon, Tapley, Smith, Sullivan, Parry, J. A. Lee, Jordan, Stewart. Against. —Rhodes, Burnett, Lysnar, W. Jones, Hudson, Anderson, McLeod, D. Jones, Uru, Reid, McMillan.