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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8544, 26 September 1907, Page 6

respondent of the Lyttelton Times had in yesterday's paper a paragraph to the following effect: —"Some members of the House, are distressed at the manner in which their speeches are reported in Hansard, and left unreported by the newspaper men. Hansard has to swallow everything that is thrown at it, but it is complained that the verbatum reports published by it are not flattering. Probably that is because they are verbatum. The Press Gallery men are not charged with being inaccurate, but it seems that their method of giving prominence to big men and briefly summarising the others hurts the feelings of the 'also spokes.' " Mr J. T. M. Hornsby protested against callow youths judging members of Parliament who had forgotten more than the former ever knew, and he moved: "That the paragraph was a breach of the privileges of the House." A long discussion followed, the Premier remarking that while he disapproved of the paragraph he did not think it a breach of privilege, and urged that the matt-:r should be allowed to drop. In this he was supported by Mr Massey, and when the question was put it was negatived on the voices.