NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
jt’ST NEW SOUTH WALES SYSTEM.
VISITING MEMBER EXPLAINS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Dec. 19.
Of the 60 members of the new Legislative Council in New South Wales only eight are new, the others being members of the old Council, which numbered 118. Mr. T. G. Murray, who arrived here to-day, said he was the first member and declared that the elected system of election was unique and had resulted in a fair representation of all parties. The Government had 24, Country 11, LangLabour 16, Federal Labour 7 and Independents 2. No salary attached to the position and never had.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1933, Page 5
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