NOISE IN PARLIAMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 82, 27 September 1911, Page 5

NOISE IN PARLIAMENT

PRESSMEN CO ON STRIKE. DESIRED EFFECT PRODUCED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. After suffering much this session from chattering of members and lady spectators between 7.30 and 9.30 in the House of Representatives, the press gallery decided to-night to protest in an unmistakable manner, .lust before 8 o'clock, when muffled baritones of legislators made a discordant buzz with suppressed soprano tones of the ladies, the members of the gallery filed out of the room as the House was in committee on the Estimates. The Hansard mail were not taking political eloquence, which, therefore, was dissipated in the desert air.

An official message was sent to Mr. Colvin, Chairman of Committees, explaining that as the pressmen could not undertake to report accurately amid .the din of many voices they would not make the attempt till order was restored. The press orderly, was sent into the gallery with a commission to listen for any public pronouncement. When the messenger brought information that Mr. Colvin had asked members and ladies to discontinue, their conversation, (lie press gallery stall' returned to work after a cessation of nearly half an hour. The House was very decorous after this incident.