NO USEFUL FUNCTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 6

NO USEFUL FUNCTION

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Answ.ering a questioner who asked if he favoured continuance of the "old men's home" in Wellington, Mr. Holland said at Christchurch North: . "I know of nothing in my Parliamentary experience which- justifies continuance of the Legislative Council. I do not propose to continue it. .Unless we can find some more useful job for it the Council will be either obliterated or greatly reduced in numbers, but I am not quite complete in nay mind on the subject. I believe we may require to use servicemen to assist in the Government's rehabilitation ; plans, and it may, be necessary to .'(appoint six of them to give them legislative authority. "Frankly. I know of no useful service the Council performs. We are already pledged to reduce the size of Parliament, and I see no reason why the Council should not be abolished altogether." ~ VOTING IN BRITAIN (Special P.A. correspondent.) Bee. noon. LONDON, Sept. 13. Men of the R.N.Z.A.F. at many R.A.F. stations have begun voting in the General Election. Men of the Forestry Unit will vote on September 14. At least 50 New Zealanders on leave voted at New Zealand House. GERMAN EXECUTIONS LONDON, September 13. \ Berlin reports that three Germans Were, executed for saying that Germany could not win the war. A broadcast from Munich by the new puppet Fascist Government states that three Italians were executed for putting a bomb on the railroad track through the Brenner Pass.