FEDERAL POLITICS
ANGIENT CUSTOMS DROPPED.
THE LABOUR IDEA. Received Last Nigh*, 8.15 o'clock). MELBOURNE, September 6. A noticeable feature of.the opening of the Federal Parliament was the -disappearance of the mace. The Ser-ceant-at-Arms was also deprived of his knee breeches, which were replaced by the regulation nether garments. The clerks of Parliament were without Sgs In the Senate, the Lsher of the R'"d carried no sword. mc Speaker stated that the changes had :been made bv his authority.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10414, 7 September 1911, Page 5
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78FEDERAL POLITICS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10414, 7 September 1911, Page 5
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