SIZE OF PARLIAMENT
REPRESENTATION OF CITIES.
MR. DONALD OPPOSES REDUCTION. Wellington, Aug. 21. Tire suggestion made earlier in the Budget debate by the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Defence, that the number of city members in Parliament should be reduced before any reduction was made in the number of country representatives, was refuted' by the Hon. J. B. Donald, PostmasterGeneral, to-day. ‘The membership of the House,*' he said, “is none too large, and members who live in cities have just as much to do as country members. Every member has his time occupied in looking after his constituents, and that applies just as much to the city member as to the country member. I hope there will be no more suggestions that cities should lose some of their representation.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1931, Page 7
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