Some Parliamentary Memories.
At the gathering at Te Ore Ore on Sunday on the occasion of Sir Apirana Ngata’s visit, the member for Masterton, Mr. J. Robertson, spoke of his acquaintance with Sir Apirana in Parliament, both in recent times and years ago when the member for Eastern Maori had earned a reputation as a most redoubtable stonewaller. Sir Apirana had held up the business of the House of Representatives so effectively on occasion, Mr. Robertson observed, that it had been necessary to go outside the Standing Orders to defeat his tactics. The member for Masterton observed jestingly that the member for Eastern Maori had kept better political company in those days than he was keeping now. Sir Apirana had said on the floor of the House that he must give credit to the Ministers now in office for their courtesy and readiness to assist the Maori race, but that departmental officials were not so good. Anything there might be to complain of in that respect, said Mr. Robertson, was a heritage the present Government had got from the past.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1938, Page 4
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180Some Parliamentary Memories. Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1938, Page 4
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