BUSINESS MEN'S COMMITTEE
CHALLENGED AS UNCONDITIONAL.
(imiTW nitl ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIQBT.)
(AUSTRAIIAN • NIW ZIIALAND CAILI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 'sth August.
The Independent Liberals in the House of Commons havo deoW«d ito challenge the appointment (yf business men on the Economy Committee, an the ground that the appointment, is unconrtitutional, and infringes the.. rights of members of the House of Oommons.
[Sir R. S. Horn* (President of tho Board of Trade) informed Mr.' Olynes that Cabinet had decided, in view of Departmental replies to the Treasury's economy circular to appoint a select committee of business men to deal with reductions in expenditure. . Sir Erie Geddes, who is resigning his portfolio of Minister of Transport shortly, has undertaken to devote tlie^hole of hie time for the remainder of"the year to the committee's work.]
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 32, 6 August 1921, Page 5
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