MEMBER FOR MOTUEKA
A LEGISLATIVE RECORD (Teou Ouk Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, August 14. Mr George Black, the twenty-tour-year-old member for Motueka, and the youngest member of the House of Bepjcsentatives, was to-day elected chairman of the Goldfields and Mines Committee. Nine months ago this select committee, which was then under the chairmanship of Mr A. M. Samuel, presented to the House a special report recording the committee’s resolution commending Mr Black (avlio had been clerk of the committee for five sessions) on the capable’manner in which lie had performed his duties. Never before in the history of the New Zealand parliament has anyone risen from tho position of clerk of a committee to that of chairman of the same ‘committee.
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Evening Star, Issue 20253, 14 August 1929, Page 8
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120MEMBER FOR MOTUEKA Evening Star, Issue 20253, 14 August 1929, Page 8
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