NOISY SCENES IN AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 307, 11 December 1936, Page 6

NOISY SCENES IN AUSTRALIA

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN AN UPROAR. CANBERRA, December 10. There were noisy scenes in the Federal House of Representatives to-day when the Opposition Leader, Mr. J. Curtin, complained about being silenced on the constitutional crisis. He endeavoured to persuade the House to agree to a message being sent to the King expressing the hope that he would not relinquish the Throne. That, said Mr. Curtin, was the wish of the Australian Labour movement. The Speaker ruled the proposal, which was in the form of an amendment to a motion for adjournment, out of order. The Qpposition 1 shouted all sorts of interjections, a Labour member, Mr. A. Beasley, exclaiming, “You arc a lot of cowards!” Upon which a Government supporter, Mr. Lane, exclaimed: “You should have shown your loyalty earlier.” Another member of the Government interposed, “What does all your lip loyalty count for now?” The motion for the adjournment was carried. The Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, stated later: “Though Mr. Curtin’s amendment was ruled out of order, let me say that the Commonwealth Government is in entire sympathy with its sentiments. In fact I asked the Governor-General some hours before the House met to transmit to His Majesty a cablegram urging! him in the name of his subjects in the Commonwealth to continue to reign over us.”