“THAT BAUBLE”
MISTAKE WITH MACE IN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS APPRECIATE JOKE THE SUM'S Parliamentary Reporter PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Thursday. Mr. E. J. Howard (Labour —Christchurch South) spoke from a history book in the House late this afternoon, when the House had gone out of committee on supply and into committee on ways and means again, which meant that Mr. Speaker resumed the chair for a space, and left it again for the Chairman of Committees, Mr. W. A. Bodkin, to preside. When Mr. Speaker is in the chair, the Mace lies in front of him on the table, and one of the duties of the aergeant-at-arms, besides announcing Mr. Speaker and preceding him with th« Mace at the opening of the House sitting, is to remove the Mace when the House goes into committee. The House went into committee and a formal resolution was being put by Mr. Bodkin when Mr. Howard rose. "What is that bauble doing there?” lie asked, more or less in terms of Cromwell of old. The Mace was still on the table, and the chief messenger had to dash forward hurriedly and remove it from the table top before the 1 House could be said to be properly in committee. Members appreciated the joke.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 1
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207“THAT BAUBLE” Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 1
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