UPPER HOUSE ABOLITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 13

UPPER HOUSE ABOLITION

TREE PASSES TAKEN AWAY BRISBANE, Dec. Hi. In Queensland the Legislative Council was abolished in spite of a referendum which had been taken earlier and which, by a majority of over 00,000, decided'against abolition. The Government of the day then sought to pack the council with nominees pledged to perform a political hari fcari; but the Governor refused to acquiesce. Then came a day when the Governor had departed, and a Lieutenant-Governor, a former Minister in the existent Government, agreed to the recommendations of his former colleagues. Up went the Legislative Council, and the, members as a. recognition of their services rendered, were given free railway passes for life, the run of the Parliamentary library, and other consolations. But now a new Government having arrived, all those things have been taken •iiway, and there is lamentation and moftrning and woe. Accusations, including repudiation, are made, but Mr. Moore and his colleagues arc adamant. The point in it all is that the old members of the council who had given seven years of good service are not included iu deprivations, only those who arc known as the executioners. That certainly is a trifle discriminatory.