Labor member Webster’s speech in the Federal Parliament on the no-con-fidence motion occupied a total of nine hours fifty minutes. It was delivered at two sittings. Senator Neild, how- 1 over, still holds the record for Australia. He spoke in the Now South Wales Assembly for nine hours without a break, and earned for himself the soubriquet “Jawbone Neild.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2580, 14 August 1909, Page 2
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75Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2580, 14 August 1909, Page 2
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