"VULGAR EPITHETS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 412, 21 July 1928, Page 8

"VULGAR EPITHETS”

MR. VEJTCH WITHDRAWS (THE SUN'S' Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Use of the term “vulgar epithets” toward some utterances by Mr. J. A. Lee brought Mr. W. A. Veitch (Wanganui) under the Speaker’s discipline this afte--noon. 'T’HE appearance of the State Fire Insurance Amendment Bill, introduced the first reading by the Hon. W. Nosworthy, gave Mr. Lee the chance to observe that if there was any institution that had withstood the cramping influence of "Coates and Confidence” it was that splendid socialistic enterprise, the State Fire Insurance Office.

Mr. Lee added his hope that tht State Fire Insurance Department would not, as other Government departments had been, be made the instrument of Reform propaganda, and that the Bill before the House would make possible further sweeping reductions in premiums, so that the actual profits would be used to better the position of the policy holders. “I have no intention of replying to Mr. Lee by t hrowing one vulgar epithet after another,” said Mr. W. A. Veitch.

Mr. Lee: Mr. Speaker, a point of order. Is he in order in referring to my statements as vulgar epithet*? Mr. Speaker (to Mr. Veitch): Did you refer to Mr. Lee’s statement? Mr. Veitch: Yes, I did. Instructed to withdraw, Mr. Veitch amended his remark by saying: 1 will say I have no intention of throwing vulgar epithets at anyone.” He added that Mr. Lee’s comments were

quite unjustified. Subsequently Mr. G. W. Forbes (Hurunui) said that if Mr. Wright

was the joker of the Reform PartT. Mr. Lee fulfilled a similar duty is the Labour ranks. The Bill was read a first time.