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REPRESENTATION OF CITIES MR DONALD OPPOSES REDUCTION WELLINGTON, Aug. 23. The 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 bo reduced before any reduction was made in the number of country representatives, was refuted by the H‘;ii J. R. Donald, Postmaster-General, yesterday. “The membership of the louse.” 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 bo no more suggestions that cities should lose some of their representa lion.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 200, 25 August 1931, Page 7
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