COUNCIL REFORM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16665, 25 September 1914, Page 8

COUNCIL REFORM.

[From Otjii Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, September 24. The "Post" devotes a lengthy article this evening to an attempt to show that tho Legislative Council Bill is not a party measure and that it ought to be considered in a non-party spirit. "Previously to the last general election," it says, "the reform of the Council v.-as a party question, because its advocacy by the then Opposition could not be separated by either party from the merits of the appointments to the Council which had been made by Liberal Governments during the past twenty years. But the sting was taken out of tho question when the advocates of Reform camo into power and from tho Treasury benches championed a measure which, like the other measure above-mentioned, would have tho primary effect of limiting their own patronage. An elective Council was no longer a challenge to the Government, but rather a selfdenying ordinance on the part of the Government, which Alio Opposition was free to consider on its merits."