SPEAKER AND PRESS
i RESTRICTION REMOVED. (Received Last :wght, 9.13 o'clock,) I jS'YDSIEY, September 10. The Speaker's sentinels have been withdrawn, to-day, And the Telegraph reporters were adnailtted to the Press Gallery. STATEMENT BY TOE SPEAKER, (Received Last September 10. Tho Speaker's messenger handed the Telegraph's representative the following statement :-VWhen the Telegraph representatives were excluded, it came to my knowledge, th-it the pressmen in the Gallery had approached the employers, with a view to tabooing Parliament, and depriving their readers of Parliamentary news.. Tn ardor that the public should no* be kept in ignorance, I had arranged for a daily issue of Hansard ; but i' Press having continued to report tbproceedings, the necessity for igsniincr Hinsard broadcast wa.s obviated. IT" 1 expense that would, thus have; fallen j on myself, wa« avoided.. I think-tbern I ! fe cause for gratification at. my having directed attention, to the biased reports of" the Press. As the authority of the Speaker ha,s been vindicated, the public is not penalised,*' ' . v —' i |
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10717, 11 September 1912, Page 5
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168SPEAKER AND PRESS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10717, 11 September 1912, Page 5
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