A NEW PRECEDENT
LORD lIEWART NAMED ON A COMMISSION.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, August 15
Lord Hewart, the Chief Justice, has accepted nomination by Mr Lloyd George as one of the Liberal representatives on the body which will inquire liitp electoral reform.
The' selection of the Chief Justice for an inquiry of this nature appears to have created an interesting precedent. Lord Reading, when Chief Justice; undertook a special mission to the United States, during the war, but a three-party inquiry into electoral reform differs from the ambassadorial function which Lord Reading exercised in America.
The present Chief Justice, who sat in the House of Commons as a Liberal from 1913 to 1922 and was during that time Attorney-General and a Cabinet Minister, made rio secret df his opposition to the prevalent view that the holder of the position of Chief Justice should he aloof from State affairs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1929, Page 8
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148A NEW PRECEDENT Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1929, Page 8
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