NEW MEMBERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24000, 25 June 1941, Page 8

NEW MEMBERS

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

TWO LABOUR SUPPORTERS

SEVERAL REAPPOINTED (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash, announces the appointment to the Legislative Council of Messrs. James Gumming and Richard Eddy. Members reappointed are the lions. T. F. O'B.vrne, W. Perry, V. A. Ward and Lieutenant-Colonel F. W aite, D.S.O. Mr. Eddy was horn in Canterbury and has been prominently associated with the Labour movement in New Zealand for upwards of 40 years. .His youth was spent, on a farm and as a shearer. In 1912 he became an organiser for the New Zealand Workers' Union, of which he became president, having held this office for the last six years. .Mr. Eddv is also a vice-president oi the Federation of Labour and a member of the national executive of the Labour Party. He is also a member of the War Council.

Mr. Cumming was born in Malvern, Canterbury, in 1879, and has also been associated with the Labour movement over a long period. Ho has had considerable experience as a miner on the West Coast and in the Waikato, and as an expert in tunnelling was one of the co-operative party which included the present Minister of_ Manpower, the Hon. R. Semple, which put through the Orongorongo tunnel for the Wellington water supply system. He was chairman of the North Island Miners' District Council, lie came to Petone in 1920, subsequently working on the waterfront, and was president of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union for two years. He has been a member of the Petone Borough Council for 11 years. He is president of the Tlull. Labour Representation Committee and secretary of the Petone branch of the Labour Party.

Other members whose terms expire this month are the Hons. Sir James Allen, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, J. Alexander, T. Blood worth, A. Burns, E. R. Davis, J. McLeod. and W. TTayward.