POINT IN PROCEDURE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 5

POINT IN PROCEDURE

Opposition Protest in ..... Commons. - Press Association— Copyrigni Rugby, March 10. A-Questicu of procedure which wat rafet.d by the Leader of the Opposi-tios.-Mr C. A Attlee, in "the House of :; 6dmmons, led to a debate Which occupied the whole of the ’session. Thq .pccasion was a money r eoluffon or a Special Areas Bill and the Opposition complained it was drawn so tightly that it would i »trict freedom of debate by making it impossible to move any amendment. The AttoinetrCen eval,'Sih DohalS Somervill, replying to the debate, admitted the importance- of th general stue raised and the necessity for keeping under constant review ilie, procedure ot the? House and the working of that procedure. The Government, he said, would be prepared to consider the question, and If after discussion with the Leader of the Opposition, inch a course seemed desirable, they would set up a further inquiry by a Select Committee Into th working of the standing order*. The amendment was received cheers.