NEW PARLIAMENT.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 27, 1 February 1923, Page 8

NEW PARLIAMENT.

CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES.

* Many members Of the House of Representatives have already arrived in Wel•lington in view of the short session will open next Wednesday. The political situation is still vague; and considerable interest attaches to the Liberal caucus, which takes place on Monday. The Liberal leader, Mr. T. M. Wilford, ■will be entertained by his constituents at Lower Hutt this evening. Several ;promincnt members of the Liberal Party ; will attend, including Messrs. R. Masters (Stratford), and Gilbert M'Kay i'(Hawkes Bay). Messrs. Wilford, Mas','ters, and M'Kay "will speak, but'their ; addresses are not likely to throw much light oh the 'political situation.

: A new Chairman of Committee's will yhave to be elected by the House. It is :not essential that the election should ■•'■ take, place during the short session about , to commence, and it is more than likely 'that it will be held over until the House in Jnne. That being so a temt porary. Chairman .of Committees will be' *:'selected, next week. The indications are that Sir John Luke (Wellington ■ North) 'will receive the appointment, although 'the name of Mr. G. Witty (Riccarton) been mentioned in some quarters. Z THE LABOUR VIEW?'"' •' Mr. Peter Fraser, first lieutenant of Xthe Official Parliamentary Labour Party, f spent the week-end in Wanganui, states ,'ithe'" Wanganui Chronicle." In conver'eation with a friend, Mr. Fraser expressed the opinion that Mr. Masse'y would be able to carry on. He did not see any -reason to doubt tbisj as those Liberals 'and Independents whd had pledged themselves to vote for the Government as • against the Labour Party were numeric/al)y sufficient to. give him the requisite majority. ... . ,