PARLIAMENT
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
By Telegraph- Props Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Legislative Council resumed this afternoon. '
Hon. Sir Charles Bowen was granted leave for the remainder of the session,, on account of ill health. . '"•
Hon. 0. Samuel moved a nation °t sympathy with the Speaker in qojtmecHon with the death of his eldest son, Brigadier-General Johnston, who was killed in France. In doing so he refefted to the fact that another son, Captain Octavius Johnston, was Wiled at the. S'omuie, and Major was killed at QalUpoli, being svr?ive&, only a short while by Ms wife, and noV the eldest son had been killed,'' ihe motion was carried. the Regulation of Trade and :Commerce Act, 1917, preventing increased charges for tea imported prior to tie im-> position of the extra duty, wag put through all stages and passed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1917, Page 4
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