THE NEW PARLIAMENT.
FARMERS PREDOMINATE. A MIXED CREW. The interest best represented in the New Zealand Parliament js always the farming interest. In the new House of Reprementatives there are 27 farmers. The next group in point of numbers is that of the lawyers, who are nine. Five journalists form the only other homogeneous mass, for the six members who may be described as agents' are engaged in a variety of businesses, and Have consequently diverse interests. In addition to 27 fanners, nine lawyers, six agents, five journalists, two secretaries, two engine-drivers, and two labourers', there are in the new oHuse a printer, a manufacturer, a fruitgrower, a saddler, an engineering employer, a county engineer, an engine-fitter, a merchant, a draper, a clothier, a storekeeper, a dentist, a school teacher (retired), a comrnercial traveller, an assayer, a polisher, a' signwriter, a baker, a grocer’s assistant, a storeman and a cellarm.an. The Native members are not accounted Tor in the analysis.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4523, 5 February 1923, Page 2
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160THE NEW PARLIAMENT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4523, 5 February 1923, Page 2
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