UPPER HOUSE MEMBERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1932, Page 9

UPPER HOUSE MEMBERS.

WILL THEY BE REAPPOINTED?

NINE TO RETIRE ON MAY 7.

PRIME MINISTER GUARDED.

(By Telegraph. — Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this clay.

If the nine members of the Legislative Council who are due to retire on May 7 next are not reappointed, the strength of the Council will be reduced to 2d. The present strength is 34. Those whose term of office will expire on Saturday week are the Hons. Sir John Sinclair, E. W. Alison, D. T. Fleming, G. J. Garland, J. E. Cow, A. F. Hawke, W. Stewart, G. M. Thomson, and W. H. Triggs, all of whom were either appointed or reappointed on May 7, 102u.

In addition to the nine councillors mentioned three other councillors, the Hon. Sir Heaton Rhodes and the Hons. L. M. Isitt and G. Witty, are due to retire on October 28 next.

Shortly after assuming the Prime Ministership Mr. Forbes stated that it was not intended to reappoint any Legislative Councillors in the meantime, and when . the matter was mentioned to him a few weeks ago his reply was, "We will take our jumps when we come to them."

In recommending that the number of members of the House of Representatives should be reduced, the National Expenditure Commission also suggested that there should be a reduction in the number of Legislative Councillors, but no number was specified.