TOMORROW’S OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 124, 21 February 1944, Page 4

TOMORROW’S OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

Commissioners Appointed

The Commission appointed to open the new Parliament tomorrow afternoon will comprise the following six members of the Legislative Council: —The Speaker of the Council, Hon. Mark Eagan; the Leader of the Council, Hon. D. Wilson ; the Hon. Rangi Mawhete, Palmerston North; the Hon. Sir Charles Statham, Wellington; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. F. Waite, D. 5.0., Balclutha; the HonV." Ward, Wellington. The members of the House of Representatives will be summoned to the Legislative Council chamber, where the commission for the opening and holding of Parliament will be read. The Commissioners will then direct the House of Representatives to elect a 'Speaker, and to present him on the following day at Government House for his Excellency.s approval. On their return to their chamber the members of the House of Representatives will be sworn in by the Clerk of the House, Mr. T. D. H. Hall, and thereafter the House will proceed to the election of a Speaker. Mr. F. W. Schramm, M.P. for Auckland East, will be nominated by the Government for that office. , . , On'Wcdnesday afternoon his Excellency the Governor-General will attend in the Legislative Council chamber to read-the Speech from the Throne. The motion in the Legislative Council for the Address-in-Reply to his Excellency’s speech will be moved by the Hon. P. J. O’Kane, and seconded by the Hon. B. Martin. It is understood that the mover and seconder of the Address m the House of Representatives will be Lieutenant-Commander P. G. Connolly, D.S.C. (Dunedin West) and Mr. A. E. Armstrong (Napier), two of the Government’s new members. Mr. Armstrong is a son of the late Hon. H. T. Armstrong.