WORK OF PARLIAMENT
RESUMED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TRIBUTES TO DECEASED LEGISLATORS. SECRET SESSION TODAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. After being in recess since the end of March, Parliament assembled yesterday afternoon. Formal business and tributes to legislators and former legislators who had died since Parliament last met were taken, and the House of Representatives adjourned as a mark of respect to their memory till this afternoon, when a secret session will be held to enable members to hear and discuss the latest developments of the war situation. The original intention was to begin the secret session last night, but the alteration in the order of business was announced following a caucus of ths Parliamentary Labour Party yesterday. When the House reassembled yester- Xday afternoon lhe desk formerly occupied by Captain W. J. Lyon, M.P. for Waitemata, who was recently killed in action, was draped with the Union Jack and it had a laurel leaf wreath from his colleagues placed on top of it. An unusually large number of urgent questions were addressed to Ministers. information being sought on many subjects of general public interest. The House rose at 5.8 p.m. till 2.30 p.m. today.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1941, Page 4
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195WORK OF PARLIAMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1941, Page 4
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