THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 62

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

ITS COMPOSITION FARMER R EPRESENTATION. •From Ocr Own Cobrespondent.) WELLINGTON, February 1. The interest best represented in the New Zealand Parliament is always the farming interest. In the new House of Representatives there are 27 farmers. The next group in point of numbers is that of the lawyers, who are nine. Five journalists form the only other homogeneous mass, for the six members who may be described as agents are engaged in a variety of businesses, and have consequently diverse interests. In addition to 27 farmers, nine lawyers, six agents, live journalists, two secretaries, two engine-drivers, and two labourers, there are in the new House a printer, a manufacturer, a fruiterer, a saddler, an engineering employer, a county engineer, an engine-fitter, a merchant, a draper, a ciothier. a storekeeper, a bookseller, a refreshment room keeper, a dentist, a school teacher (retired), a commercial traveller, an assaver, a polisher, a signvvriter, a baker, a grocer's assistant, a storeman, and a cellarman. The Native members are not accounted for in the analysis.