PARLIAMENTARY.

Otaki Mail, 29 June 1923, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

DULL DEBATE. MR MoCOaißS' AMENDMENT. REJECTED. WELLINGTON Last Night. This afternoon in the House was the dullest since, the debate opened. Air McCombs (Lyttelton) who opened the debate, moved another Labour amendment to Mr Wilford's amendment, providing- that there should be no reduction of income tax until the salaries and wages of public servants and other, workers affected by the Public Expenditure Adjustment Act and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, have been restored to the equivalent of their pre-war standard, measured by purchasing power. Mr Wilford said he considered the amendment fair and just. The division on Mr. McCombs' amendment was reached before midnight and resulted in the amendment* defeat by S 3 votes to 36, The division list was:— For the Amendment (36). Armstrong'. Sidey. Atmorc. Smith. Bartram. Sullivan. Buddo. Thomson. Corrig-an, Veitch. Perrelle, Wilford. Edie. Jordan. Forbes. T^angstoHe. Eraser. .bee. i tanan. Lye. Holland. McCombs. ] Howard. Mcllvrido. Murctock. McKay. O'Brien. MeKeen. Parry- " 'MacPherson. Poland. Master*. Ransom. Monteith,. Savage. Monro. Again?! the Amendment (3S). Anderson. McLeod. Pell. Macliillsui. Kitchener. Massey. Bollard. Nash. Burnett. Nosworthy. Coates. Parr. Dickson. J M. Pomare. Dickson. J. S. Potter. Fluid. Rhodes, Sir R. H. Girling. Rhodes, T. W. Glenn. Rolleston, F. J. Harris. Rolleston, J. C. Hawken. Stewart. Hockly. Sykes. Hudson. Uru. Hunter. Williams. I Isitt. Witty. liinklat»r. Wright. Luke. Young, J <ysnar. Pairs for the Amendment. Horn and Ngata: against, Henare arid Guthrie. This division s«ems to indicate the stats of the House, and subsequent j unimportant divisions will be (jinxilar. MORE LABOUR AMENDMENTS j DISPOSED OF. NOISY SCENES. For a quarter of an hour after the formal business had been disposed of in Parliament yesterday, the Chamber was in an uproar while the Prime Minister was replying to a epiestion from a Labour member as to whether ho was going to the country, in opposition to j one of Labour's four amendments. The Speaker had difficulty in quelling the turmoil, and eventually threatened to name offenders for their interruption of the business. A sudden division after tea on the third amwidnient saw the amendment j defeated by's7 to 17, and just before J tire House rose a,fourth Labour ameadJ ment was rejecter.