HOUSE ADJOURNS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1943, Page 2

HOUSE ADJOURNS

TO LET MEMBERS ATTEND RECEPTION TENDERED TO GENERAL FREYBERG. QUESTION REGARDING VOTING BY DEFAULTERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A very brief sitting of the House of Representatives was held this morning. When members met at 10.30 a.m., the Minister of Supply (Mr Sullivan) said arrangements had been made for members to attend the civic reception to be tendered to General Freyberg at 12.15 p.m., and as a result it was proposed io adjourn the House, after the conclusion of formal business, until 2.30 p.m. The Leader of the Opposition, said the Opposition fully concurred in the proposal. He thought it only fitting that members should be given an opportunity of doing honour to the leader of the New Zealand Division.

Formal business included notice of a question by Mr D. C. Kidd to the Minister in Charge of the Electoral Office regarding votes for military defaulters. Mr Kidd asked whether men in detention camps fox- military defaulters were to be permitted to vote at the general election. These men were not treated as ordinary lawbreakers, he said, and the relatives of soldiers were already expressing resentment that defaulters may continue to exercise full civil rights. The House adjourned at 10.37 a.m. until 2.30 p.m.