NO UPPER HOUSE IN N.Z.
Comment In Lords (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright > LONDON, December 8. References to the fact that New Zealand has no Second Chamber were made in the House of Lords during the debate on the bill for the creation of life peers of both sexes, which was given an unopposed reading. Earl Attlee, referring to a statement by the Lord President of the Council (Viscount Hailsham) on the necessity for a Second Chamber in Britain, said that Viscount Hailsham had drawn “a terrible picture of awful dictatorship” which might occur if there were only a single chamber. “But you know, just that thing was done by the Conservative Government of New Zealand a few years ago. It was done, not by the wicked Labour Government, but by a Conservative Government,’ ’ said Lord Attlee. Viscount Bridgeman said he thought those members of the House who had been to New Zealand would feel that conditions there were not parallel or a guide to conditions in Britain, if only because of the difference between 2.000,000 and 50.000,000 in the respective populations.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28457, 11 December 1957, Page 3
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