ANOTHER PARLIAMENTARY STONEWALL.
The Meikle Acquittal Bill was made the first order of the oay in the House of Representatives, yesterday evening, and the stonewall that disgraced the proceedings and wasted the titi.e of the House last week was icsumed. The opponents of the Bill demand that it should be made general instead of special, but it is apparently only an excuse for the blockading tactics they have set up with a view to killing the bill, and preventing justice being done to Meikle. It was in vain the Premier explained that as the object of the measure was to give effect to the recommendations of a commission appointed to deal with a specific subject, and therefore it could not be made general in its effect. Mr Bollard moved to alter the title to "Wrongly Convicted Persons Acquittal Bill," and over this the House was
still wrangling when the telegraph I -office closed at midnight. As the! Premier stated his earnest desire to put the bill through, and so perform a duty cast upon him as head of the Government, it is probable he may adopt the Seddonian method of carrying his measure by the process of exhaustion. In this instance the end would certainly justify the means.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8872, 5 November 1907, Page 4
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208ANOTHER PARLIAMENTARY STONEWALL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8872, 5 November 1907, Page 4
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