PRESS MEN ON STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10434, 27 September 1911, Page 5

PRESS MEN ON STRIKE

A DEMAND FOR QUIETNESS

By Telegraph—Press Associativa

, WELLINGTON, Last Night. After suffering much this session from the chattering of members and lady spectators between 7.30 and 9.30 in tho House of Representatives, the Press Gallery decided to-night to protest in an imraistakable manner. Just before eight o'clock, when the muffled baritones of legislators -nuue a discordant buzz >vtitlh the suppressed soprano tones of ladies, the members of the Press gallery filed out of the room as the House was in committee on the estimates. Tile Hansard men were not taking political eloquence, which therefore was dissipated dn desert air. An official message was sent to Mr Colvin, Chairman Of Committees, explaining that as the press,men could not undertake to report accurately amid the din of many voices,. they would not make the attempt until order was restored. The Press orderly was sent into the gallery with a commission to listen for any public pronouncement. > When the messenger brought the\ information that Mr Colvin had asked members and ladies to discontinue their conversation* the Press gallery staff returned to work, after a cessation of .nearly half an: hour. The House "was very decorous after this incident.