LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL REFORM WHAT SIGNIFICANCE?
In the House of Representatives' yesterday afternoon Mr. G. W. Russell asked the Prime Minister whether the Government will state what significance is attachable to its action in making still another appointment to the Legislative Council for seven years, in view of its professed proposals for the reform of that body and the election of its members. The Hon. Mr. Massey replied : The significance to be attached to the Government's- action in the matter referred to is that in advising the appointment of Sir William Hall-Jones the Government has established a reform, and has departed from the practice that has prevailed since the alteration of the constitution of the Council in the year 1891 of regarding party considerations only, and of ignoring high public service, in the selection' of members to serve in that branch of the Legislature.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 93, 16 October 1913, Page 2
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143LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL REFORM WHAT SIGNIFICANCE? Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 93, 16 October 1913, Page 2
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