LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
FOURTEEN LABOUR APPOINTMENTS
>' tPer Press Association. — Copyright .l V r WELLINGTON, This Day. Fourteen new members of the V' Legislative Council have been apr pointed by the Labour Government. $ The .list includes the previous Speaker Of the House of Representatives, . J Sir Charles Statham, and a representative of the native race, Mr Rang! MaWhete, of Awapuni. The members be' sworn in when the n£w Par.i 1 lament meets on March 25. The appointment? are:— Mark Briggs (Palmerston North). - Thomas Brlndle (Wellington). ' Mtehatl 'Connelly (Dunedin). - : 'tf; H j|piiiios Cotter (Hinuera). Thomas Francis Doyle (Bluff). Edward Dye (Waihi). •■i James Goodall (Greymouth). ' G*orge Robert Hunter. (Christchurch). Frank Edwin Lark (Auckland). Bernard Martin (Auckland. Mawhete (Awapuni). John Alexander McCullough (Addington). • Benjamin Conrad Robbins (Tau- ; , .rwxga). . “ Sir Charles Statham (Wellington). » The new members of the Legislative Council have not been called on to , c ; sign any pledge that they, will vote for ' the abolition of the council, but Mr Q. R. Hunter, one of the new ,ap- >>• pointees, said today that he was satis- . fled that they would all do so if the ! Labour party thought it necessary, g “We< go into the Legislative Council ■■ quite unfettered,” said Mr Hunter, “but I know every man who ha's been appointed,- and I am satisfied they all will vote for an abolition bill ’’’ arid hand in their resignations if called on to do so.” Sp far as the k abolition was concerned, Mr Hunter said it was still a fn’: the’’Labour party’s platform but it might not be necessary to put it into effect immediately. If however,
- ' trouble wgs experienced with an > • majority in the council it * might be necessary to take immediate - action. *’ • j ■ ,
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Northern Advocate, 10 March 1936, Page 8
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