466 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [part 111 
Standing Order No. 335 provides that no debate is allowed 
on the Order of the Day for the House to resolve itself into 
Committee of Supply or Ways and Means, and no Amend- 
ment or contingent motion shall be entertained without the 
leave of the House, no debate being allowed upon the motion 
for such leave, except a statement of the subject-matter of the 
intended motion, limited to ten minutes. Standing Order 
No. 395 imposes a similar limit of ten minutes on the Member 
moving that it is a matter of urgent necessity that the 
Standing Orders should be suspended without notice. 
There were no rules of the Parliament of Queensland provid- 
ing a limit for speeches, but the Standing Orders provided 
that on a motion for the adjournment to discuss a definite 
matter of urgent public importance, the mover might not 
speak for more than thirty minutes, and any other Member 
debating the motion, or the mover speaking in reply, might 
not speak for more than twenty minutes, A time limit was 
agreed upon after long discussion in 1910. It limits speeches 
as a rule to an hour and a half in the case of the mover, in 
other cases to thirty minutes (see Debates, 1910, p. 611). 
There is no time limit to speeches. of Members of the 
Parliament of South Australia. 
There is no limit in the length of speeches in the Legislative 
Council of Victoria. Standing Order No. 8b of the Legis- 
lative Assembly provides that, on a motion for the adjourn- 
ment of the House to discuss a definite matter of urgent 
public importance the mover shall not exceed thirty minutes, 
and any other Member shall not exceed fifteen minutes, and 
the whole discussion on the subject shall not exceed two 
hours. This Standing Order has been in force since 1889 
and works admirably. 
There is no time limit to the length of speeches in the House 
of Parliament of Tasmania or of Western Australia. 
There is no time limit to the length of speeches of the 
Legislative Council of the Dominion of New Zealand. Stand- 
ing Order No. 108 of the House of Representatives provides 
that no Member shall speak for more than half an hour at 
a time in any debate in the House, except in the debate on 
the address in reply or on the financial statement, or in a 
debate of a motion of ‘No confidence’ or in moving the 
second reading of a Bill or on the debate on the Appropriation 
Bill, when a Member shall be at liberty to speak for one 
hour. In Committee of the House no Member shall speak 
for more than ten minutes at any one time or more than 
four times on any one question before Committee ; provided 
that this rule shall not apply in Committee to a Member