NEW "LORDS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 10

NEW "LORDS."

MEMBERS OF UPPER HOUSE. : : WELLINGTON-NOT IMPRESSED. : ; (By .Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) i .■■•-■ -'■{ WELLINGTON, Monday. ; Tliejappointment of. six new members to >the Legislative Coimcil has not been received in the capital'city , with general approval, nor indeed. without emphatic expressions of regret. Even good supporters of the United payty,. who will remain faithful to. their, party, state openly that the new "lords" were not required either to carry on the business of the country, or, as the critics put it, to maintain the balance of power in the second chamber. An exception is made, in most quarters,,in the case of Mr. Buddo, who has served ■ for a - lengthy period in the elected chamber, has achieved Ministerial rank and has dissociated himself from purely party politics by retiring from the other chamber at the last j general - election. ■' ■' ■ • . ; As for the rest they all no doubt are worthy gentlemen; but no one who has spent a long evening'in the Council Chamber, when the "lords" have been kept busy with bills sent up from "the other place," will be greatly impressed by the consequence of the proceedings. 'Sir Thomas Sidey, fresh from this elected chamber, does his best, and does it very well, but there still are tradi-tions-and formalities to be overcome.