ELECTED COUNCIL.
STILL IN THE FUTURE
ACT .SUSPENDED AGAIN
(.Special Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, This Day. • Sir Francis Bell told the Legislative Council this afternoon Uiat tiho Government hud decided to postpone again the operation of the Legislative Council Act of 19]4, .making the council elective on a basis ox proportional representation. The Act to remain suspended until a date to be announced later. The Attorney-General indicated that next year the House of "Representatives would be given an opportunity of expressing an opinion regarding the Act. ■The obvious deduction is that tJie Government is no longer keen about having the Council made elective. The Yet, it -will b remembered, was put through in the face of strong opposition, as one of the policy measures of Hie Government. The war led to its .-■uspension. Since the war the Government has shown clearly a disposition to reconsider the situation before creating an elective Upper House. The Council recently carried a motion disapproving of t-lie Act being brought into operation, but this motion was not binding upon the Government, which had merely to refrain from action in order to have the Act brought automatically into effect.
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Northern Advocate, 29 September 1920, Page 3
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191ELECTED COUNCIL. Northern Advocate, 29 September 1920, Page 3
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