MEMBERS IGNORED.
(Our Parliamentary [Reporter.) Wellington, July 31, "This Coalition Ministry lias utterly ignored members of the House during this great war," said Dr. A. K. Newman (Wellington) East, in the House of Representatives to-day. "We are not Seeking pay, but we weuld like an opportunity to do some of the work that lies to hand. We are treated like nonentities. It is about time some of us revolted against this state of affrirs." Dr. Th acker (Chi istchurch East): "Will you join us in revolting?" ! Dr. Newman added that members of the, British House of Commons had been entrusted 'with a great deal of war work as members of boards and commissions, but in New Zealand members of Parliament had not been permitted to do anything at all. The Coalition Ministers |iad taken everything into tbeif own hands. It would have been much better
if the members bad been given place 3 on efficiency boards, military service boards, and elsewhere.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1917, Page 5
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161MEMBERS IGNORED. Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1917, Page 5
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