PARLIAMENT’S TERM
Recommendation For Four Years fN Z Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 8. The subject of considerable discussion at this morning’s session of the annual conference of the Wellington Division of the National Party, was a Patea remit urging a longer term for Parliament, which was carried after amendments. The original remit asked for a four-year term, after an affirmative vote in a referendum to be put before the people “at the earliest convenient time” It was also decided that, after an early referendum, the lengthened term of Parliament should apply as from after the 1966 election.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29535, 9 June 1961, Page 14
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