MR. SPEAKER WILLIS.
WANTS TO RAISE HIS OWN SALARY
SOME CHOICE EPITHETS,
By OableW-Press Association—Copyright. Received 26, 9 p.m. Sydney, November 26. In the Assembly there was another protracted sitting on.the Estimates. The Parliamentary Estimates, revised by Mr. Willis, included an increase in his own salary from £IOOO to £ISOO, an increase of £l6O for the Chairman of Committees, and a new item of £IOO for a deputychairman of committees. Mr. Willis was out of the Chamber. Members made the most of the opportunity for untrammelled criticism. His occupancy of the chair was characterised as a reign of terror, and he himself as impertinent, a "tinpot tyrant," "bowdleriser of Hansard," "a freak Heaven-born organiser," ,ahd "a political bandit."
Mr. Lonsdale thought that the people associated with the Speaker ought to get higher salaries because of the indignities they had to suffer.
Eventually all the proposed increases were negatived on the voices.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 163, 27 November 1912, Page 5
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151MR. SPEAKER WILLIS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 163, 27 November 1912, Page 5
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