NO PLEDGE GIVEN.
NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS QUESTION OF ABOLITION. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The men who have been appointed to the Legislative Council by the Labour Government have not been called upon to sign any pledge that they will vote for abolition of the Council, but Mr G. R. Hunter, one of the new appointees, said to-day that he was satisfied they would all do so if the party thought it necessary. “We go into the Legislative Council unfettered,” said Mr Hunter, “but I know every man who has been appointed, and I am satisfied they all will vote for an Abolition Bill or hand in their resignations straight away if called upon to do so.” So far as abolition of the Council was concerned, Mr Hunter said, it was still a definite plank in the Labour Party’s platform, hut it might not ho necessary to put it into effect- immediately. If, however, trouble was experienced with the anti-Labour majority in the Council it might be necessary to take immediate action.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 126, 10 March 1936, Page 4
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173NO PLEDGE GIVEN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 126, 10 March 1936, Page 4
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