N.S.W. UPPER HOUSE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 132, 2 December 1930, Page 11

N.S.W. UPPER HOUSE

THE SWAMPING PROCESS

LANG TO SEE GOVERNOR

pnited Press '-Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 2nd December, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. No fewer than 1347 -applications have been received from Labour candidates by the Australian Labour Party executive for appointment to the Upper House. The Premier, Mr. J. T. Lang, will make a selection from these. The Premier is oxpeeted to approach the Governor (Sir Philip Game) to-day to ask for forty • additional .appointments to tl-i Legislative Council.

It was learnt in the Parliamentary lobbies that a movement has been, launched amongst a section of members of the Legislative Council to introduce a measure to abolish that Chamber, said the "Sydney Morning Herald" a fortnight ago. They point out that as Mr. Lang had obtained a mandate to put that policy into effect, the proposed move would wreck the ambitions of many Trades Hall and union officials, who sought appointment to the Legislative Council, with the object of receiving train and tram passes for life after the abolition took place. Considerable expenditure, they also state, would bp saved if; the swamping of the Upper House with Labour nominees was avoided.