Parliamentary Censor
The Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr W. E. Barnard) caused some amusement at a meeting of the Napier Returned Soldiers’ Association when he described his duties as “censor” of speeches broadcast from the House. Mr Barnard said it was necessary for him to anticipate what the speakers were going to say, for it was too late to cut a statement off the air once it had been made. He had found that his duties kept him wide awake, “with one finger on the trigger,” and completely dispelled any tendency to doze off in the Speaker’s chair while long-winded members were having their say.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 11
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107Parliamentary Censor Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 11
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