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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1932, Page 2

WHAT OF THE COUNCIL?

When the Coalition Government turns to the ending or the mending of “’file Legislative Council Act,” as it surely must do during the next twelve months, it will find itself coni routed by an extremely difficult problem. Sir 'Francis Belt’s Legislative Council Bill, which was placed un the Statute Book so long ago as Ihi 3, and in the following year was suspended in order that the Reform and Liberal Parties might get together for the purposes of the Great War, is still hanging over the head of Parliament. Surely the Coalition Government, composed of the two Parties concerned imdhe proceeding of seventeen years ago, will not allow this farce to be continued indefinitely. Sir Francis Bell, the very capable author of the measure, happily is with us now, and whether it is restored to .ts effective value or is swept away from the Statute Book it is by his hand its fate should be determined. To prolong the present position is to make the Parliament of the country increasingly ridiculous.