UPPER HOUSE REFORM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 11

UPPER HOUSE REFORM

NEW SOUTH WALES BILL REFUSED * INJUNCTION COURT GIVES ITS REASONS By Tel«wr»ph-PreM Association-Copyright (Received May 30. 8.96 p.m.) SYDNEY, May DO The Full Court to-day Rave its reasons tor unanimously refusing to grant the application- of Mr. A. B. Piddin K ton and others for an injunction to restrain the Electoral Commissioner from issuing a certificate concerning; the result of tho voting in the recent referendum on tho reform of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Tho Court held that tho Constitut ion did not provide that a copy of the Legislative Council Reform Bill should have been handed to each .elector as Mas claimed on behalf of plaintiffs. It explained that the Legislature had laid down that tho bill, in effect, should be submitted to the electors. Plaintiffs' counsel had claimed that the word "submitted" meant that a copy of the bill should have been handed to each elector on polling day, or at all events should have been made available for his perusal. Tho Court was of the opinion that thus contention was unreasonable. No such meaning could be attached .to tho word and plaintiffs' contention, therefore, was not sustained.