PARLIAMENT AND THE SABBATH.
MEMBERS WANT TO WORK ON SUNDAY, THE SUGGESTION OVER-RULED. TH -the, H"u*!e Hn Saturday flight as the hour of midnight struck; Mr Millar, Chairman of CominitteeS, offered to leave the chair, but an cibj'ection was raised. Shortly hftfrwriivls Mr. Vl'e drew (attention lo Sthniiiiig Oriler No. 24; which says that " no sitting of the House shall tuke place betweeen twelve o'clock on Saturday night and 2.30 on Monday afternoon." He protested it was a most improper thing that the House should continue its sitting on the Sabbath Dai-. . U was suggest thai the, Stui+dlh£ Oixier should be suspended; but Mr Millar said the House would have to do that, aftd the. Speaker should be called in. Mr Guinness took his Beat, and said he had no right to be called in. At midnight the Chairman of Committees should have walked out of the chair and walked into it again at 2.30 p.m. on Monday. Thereupon Mr Millar Said Vhttt ns mtdnight had been reached he would leave the chair ahd resume at 2.30 on Monday. At 12.15 a.m. the House adjourned;
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 252, 23 November 1903, Page 3
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185PARLIAMENT AND THE SABBATH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 252, 23 November 1903, Page 3
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