THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
ITS DWINDLING XU>iIBERS. 'XSpecial Correspondent.) ■WELLINGTON". Wednesday. The prompt reappointment of Harris to the Legislative Council has attracted special attention only through the fact that other members of he Council whose terms have expired since the formation of the National Cabinet have not received a suitilaV distinction. Major Harris, who is now SI years of age, has sat in the Council since 1S!17, and, though he cannot he regarded as a great political force in the country, everyone will be pleased to see him still occupying his old place. But hie reappomtment has again directed attention to the dwindling number of councillors and to the advanced years of a jrreat majority of them. The real work of the Council fails upon the-shoulders of half-a-dozen members, and. all thi'iifts considered, they bear it extraordinarily ■well, but unless the chamber is to be left to die of attenuation it will have to be reinforced very shortly.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 8
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