AN OVER-BEARING SPEAKER.
Speaker Willis, of the New South .Wales Legislative Assembly, is evidently looking for notoriety. His contlncf, of the business of the Chamber, since he was accidentally thrown int/> the chair a few months back, has been ludicrous in the extreme. He lias fallen foul of numerous members of the. House, and has assumed an auu»cratic demeanour, which has provoked enmity, distrust, and almost hatred. His Jatesfr achievement, in refusing ydmifiision to representatives of the Daily Telegraph to the Chamber, because tliat paper liad the temerity to criticise his over-bearing eonduct. stamps him as the most extraordinary specimen of a Speaker ever produced by a British Legislature. We have had illustrations in New Zealand m recent years-of. political corruption a-n<Y attempts to gug the Pre^s; but we have. i?ever descended to such depths m political depravity us that reached in New South Wales. If the people will tolerate the aberrations of Speak--er. Willis, they will tolerate anj thing.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 2 September 1912, Page 4
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160AN OVER-BEARING SPEAKER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 2 September 1912, Page 4
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