POLITICAL SENSATION
VITAL CLAUSE REJECTED.
BY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ACCEPTS PREMIER’S CHALLENGE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, Oct. 14. There was a political sensation today, the Legislative Council, by 30 votes to 20, negativing the vital, residential clause oLthe Local Gbvernment Act Amendment Bill, under which at is proposed to confer Parliamentary franchise on all adults with, three months’ residence in any shire or municipality. Mr Willis thereupon moved to report progress. The council’s action is the practical acceptance of Mr Lang’s chaUenge to pass Government Biills or take the consequences in the shape of swamping, and later the possible abolition of the Council. The Government’s next move is awaited with interest, but it will probably be delayed pending the disclosure of the attitude of the Counoil toward certain other Government measures which are to tome before it. Mr Willis later gave notice of the introduction of a Bill to provide for the appointment of women to the Council. —Press Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 October 1925, Page 9
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