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• ELECTIVE COUNCIL POSTPONED,
(Our Parliamentary Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, Sept. 28
Sir Francis Bell told the Legislative Council this afternoon that the Government had decided to postpone again the operation of the Legislative Council Acb 1914, making the Council elective on a basis of proportional representation. The Act is to remain suspended until a date to be announced later. The Attorney General indicated that next year the House of Representatives would be given an opportunity of expressing an opinion regarding the Act. The obvious deduction is that the Government is no longer keen about having the Council made elective. The Act, it will be remembored, was put through in the face of strong opposition, as one of the policy measures ol the Government. The war led to its suspension and since the war the Government lias shown clearly a disposition to reconsider the situation, before creating an elective Upper House. The Council recently carried a motion disapproving of the Act being brought into operation, but this motion was not bin-ling upon the Government, which had merely to refrain from action in order to have the Act brought automatically into effect.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1920, Page 4
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