LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Friday, June 6. In the Council Captain Baillie was reappointed Chairman of Committees, and a [ number of the usual Sessional Committees i were appointed. The Hon G. M. Waterhoitse asked that he might be exempted from serving on the Petition Committee, saying that he wholly disagreed with the way in which these Commitbees discharged their functions, which had become so wide as seriously to interfere with the freedom of the Executive and the Judicature. As showing this he quoted the cases of Government employees discharged for incompetency, burdening the Committees with petitions, and the cases of Angelique Therese and the convict Longhurst. He said the ' growth of the powci-3 of these Committees was quite unconstitutional, and there was no parallel to it in any other part of the Empire. The debate was adjourned, and the Council arose at 3 p.m.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5022, 7 June 1884, Page 3
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