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Presentation
The SPEAKER: The House will now proceed to Government House. Transport will not be provided. Members should make their own way to Government House to arrive before 5.00 p.m. As a mark of courtesy to Her Excellency, I ask that as many members as possible attend Government House and that they attend promptly before 5.00 p.m. I shall now leave the chair until the ringing of one long bell.
The members of the Legislative Assembly proceeded at 4.40 p.m. to Government House, there to present the Speaker to Her Excellency the Governor.
The House resumed at 6.30 p.m.
The SPEAKER: I report that today the Legislative Assembly proceeded to Government House, where I informed the Governor that immediately after the opening of Parliament the Legislative Assembly, in the exercise of members' undoubted rights, had proceeded to the election of their Speaker, that choice had fallen upon me, and that I had to present myself to the Governor as their Speaker; whereupon the Governor was pleased to offer me her congratulations. I then, in the name and on behalf of the House, laid claim to all members' undoubted rights and privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, to free access to Her Excellency when occasion should require, and I asked that the most favourable construction should, on all occasions, be put upon their language and proceedings; to all of which the Governor readily assented. I thank members for their attendance.
[The Speaker left the chair at 6.32 p.m. The House resumed at 7.30 p.m.]