THE ACTING-PRIME MINISTER
SIR FRANCIS BELL’S POSITION . , ■ - . •■ t •/ ; .. \h (By Telegraph.—Gwn Correspondent.) WELLINGTON. This Day. When the Legislative Council met to receive notification that Royal assent had been given to the last Bills dealt with. Sir Francis Bell took" "the opportunity of referring to the suggestion that he ought not to be chairman of be Cabinet in the absence of the Prime Minister in England. “The suggestion that' we are not the; representatives of the people,” he said, “L do not understand at all.” Apart Iroivi the Maori member, the Council numbered 40 members, 23 of whom bad been members of another place, many for long periods. Several had been Ministers of the Crown, and two had held the highest office in the country. Many of them who had been members of the House could still he members it they would allow themselves to be nominated. He was making a protest more on behalf of the Council than for himself. He had long ceased to be ambitious, and if ho could logically have supported the argument tu which ho had referred, he would have done so. ' \ -
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 23 March 1921, Page 4
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