CREATING COUNCILLORS.
PRESS REPORTS. PRIME MINISTER AMUSED(SpeciaI to Times.) WELLINGTON, Monday. It was only just the other other day that Sir Joseph Ward was shown a paragraph furnished to one of the South Island evening newspapers by its "Wellington Political Correspondent’’ stating in effect that the Prime Minister since his assumption of office had received some two hundred applications for seats in the Legislative Council and was about to make 20 appointments to the nominated branch of the Legislature. Sir Joseph was much amused by the enterprise of the author; but he had to confess he had not been devoting a great deal of attention to he constitution of the nominated chamber. As a matter of fact, he had not suffered at all from importunate applicants for seats in the Council and the “Political Correspondent” and his employers might make their minds quite easy on the matter. Strengthening the Legislative Council was not the most urgent need of the moment. Much graver problems were occupying the attention of the Government.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17687, 16 April 1929, Page 8
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