PARLIAMENT
TALK ABOUT A GENERAL ELECTION NATIONAL GOVERNMENT ATTACKED STRAIGHT TALK BY PRIME MINISTER • The legislative Council met at 2.30 p.m. Tie" J-ion. J. T. PAUL gave notice to ask the Leader of tho Council [Sir Francis Bell): "Whether the Government nna considered the present position of the legislative Council; if so, does the Government consider Hint the Council's present membership of twenty-four (a proportion of which is unable to attend regularly the sittings of the Council) constitutes an efficient body for the effective transaction of the responsible duties attached to the Second Chamber; will the Government tell the country plainly what it proposes to do with the Council as regards its constitution, (a) whether the Council is to 1)0 kept in its present unrepresentative state and reduced strength, or (b) whether sonio further proposal is contemplated in the direction of undermining the present law providing for the election of the Council by the people ?" The Council adjourned at 2.35 p.m.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3176, 29 August 1917, Page 6
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161PARLIAMENT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3176, 29 August 1917, Page 6
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