AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.
THE NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION.
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.
Sydney, November 25.
Mr. Willis asks Mr. Wood to cut his motion down to a bare expression of want of confidence in himself.
CENSURE MOTION AMENDED.
Received 25, 9.55 p.m. Sydney, November 25. Itt the Assembly the Speaker, in reply to Mr. Wood's request for an explanation, said that the motion was cut down because the first part was irrelevant to the issue, and the House agreed to take the motion as amended by the Speaker, making it a simple censure of the Speaker. THE MOTION DEFEATED. Received 26, 12.50 a.m. Sydney, November 25. Mr. Wood, in a two hours' speech, attacked the Government for failing to take a logical course to clear up the matter of the Speaker's power. He claimed that the House should have the initiation and control of its own business. ■The Premier, in reply, defended Mr. Willis, and declared that he had no intention of taking the business of the House out of the hands\of the Government. Mr. Holman moved the closure.
Mr. Wood's motion was negatived by, 34 to 32. It was purely a party vote.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 162, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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190AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 162, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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