CLERK TO CHAIRMAN
f M.P.'S UNIQUE POSITION (Parliamentary Iteportcr.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mr. G. C. Black, the 24 year-old member for Motueka, and the youngest member of the House of Representatives, was to-day elected chairman of the Goldtields and Mines Committee. Nine months ago this select committee, then under the chairmanship of Mr. A. M. Samuel, presented to the House a special report recording the committee's resolution commending Mr. Black, who had been clerk of the committee for five sessions, on the capable manner in which ho ihad performed his services. Never before in the history of the New Zealand Parliament has anyone risen from clerk of committee to chairman of the same committee.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 11
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114CLERK TO CHAIRMAN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 11
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