APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 10

APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES.

: REPRESENTATION OP. PARTIES. When the nppoihtmc'nt' of •co'mmitteos : ..was .commEnced in the. House of Representatives jesterday, the lnme Minister stated that the system of committees had been modified this year, soithat it should no longer 1« complained, that .some members wcro on too many committees, with the result, presumably, that other members were' on too few. The committhrM nlf, s ? s S lon are ' of tc D' bombers,• of nhom m is' ? U0 P m - s 'r Joseph said he thought !t .would te found that in proportion n respectiro parties of the House the distnbution; was a fair one. Before the present Parliament was in existent, tU proportion of Opposition to Government commirtces had, he''- th™st; 'S fairly, preserved, although it had been com" •plained that one particular member ■ was not , appointed to a certain,<x,mmi t« I n the ore S«s l the Government Whip. might consult bb^«wi,4'W4SSß &mnmrnT ? rtembe« y and n ®ll)T i V^ ists—ivere. three eAmmrnl' • ? Oppositionone • oommittee, Out ?if : sat-a # I the proper Proportion,' bdonwd to fe s "r n emment party, whil<i ■■ tte ®° v * more than the proper ' or a fitionists. : : v . p percentage, Oppowould bo' of W slrviM° UK n l t!iat t!l^ Other than those to whiZh li t. com , mi ttees llPssiHiwi authon'ty. P (Laugh& ) Übje ° b he . Wns flot not on tho' committee to deal with Cwina ? '?f t0 th ? g»Wflolds. .itcplying _to> tlie complaint, tho Prime Minit ™ c ' ar ? t l that if either of the S Sl e : mon desired to havo his name removed from other committees, on • tb the Qoldfields Commmce ne would be glad to consider tho

Mr. Frnser said lieto certain he was not going to make any such application. If th« member: The Gorornmont)—wished e u p 'li five '"h'sorviccs to the Goldfiolds Committee Jio bad lived fifty Years in ?n ?i distnets—lie would' .bo glad to "cede to the request, but if his services were not de sired, that, was an end of the matter _Mr. Hemes regretted that the representation of the. Hanraki goldfield's on the committee was proposed-to be rodii6ed, ™ lttM .The Hon. G. Fowlda said he would-not li!r» it to go forth thit the' Hanraki goldfields'wcro being ncgleoted in •: the 'matter. ' The reason Herries had b«en left oft, the com ,a% wa» that tie goldileldi: Vrtion of

his old district liad'been oint m the. Ohinemuri/districti-- >.svv Mr.-.J. : Allen: It,does-not matter whether ■' hei Bow represents a goldfielde' '' -he says,that there are fitill poMfields;inhis dietTiot—for, •no , .member} iot ; em' the V Minister .for.. Mines, has, a knowledge of min* • ing equal to 'that-of ;Mr. Homes, and a eimi-' lar remark could be made in respect ot Mr. ' PrasQlv I .' • Y.\.The only; alteration made in the • constitu-' tion of. the proposed committees (published in ' The Dominion yesterday) was that the nsmo ofDr. t Buck .was;substituted for,;that' of Mr. Dive in the House Committee, but \m Tuesday: next .Ur v Malcolm will more- to have nairiß omitted, froin the Select "Committee.