CONSTITUTION OF NYASALAND
Changes Come Into Effect
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) BLANTYRE (Nyasaland), August 25. The Governor of Nyasaland (Sir Robert Armitage) said yesterday the Constitutional changes increasing African representation in the Protectorate’s Government, announced last night in London, would come into effect immediately. ’The changes provide for the number of nominated African members on the Legislative Council to be increased from five to seven members, and for two African members of the Legislative Council to be appointed to the executive council. Two further official members will be appointed to the Legislative Council, whose life is being extended beyond May, 1960, when it would normally have come to an end. Any Legislative Council member who is in detention must vacate his seat if the Governor so directs. Sir Robert Armitage, who has already declared the seat of Mr W. M. K. Chiume to be vacant, today directed that the seat of Mr H. B. Shipembere should also become vacant. These men were described in the recent Devlin report on the Nyasaland disturbances as extremist members of the Left Wing of the African National Congress.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28984, 27 August 1959, Page 7
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