UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
HOUSE OF COMMONS READING NEW ZEALAND CONSTITUTION BILL N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright. Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 9. The New Zealand Constitution (Amendment) Bill, which has already passed the House of Lords, was given a unanimous second reading in the House of Commons yesterday. Mr R. Noel-Baker, Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, who moved the second reading, said the Bill removed a recognised out-of-date limitation on the power of the New Zealand Parliament to amend its Constitution. New Zealand was equal in status to all the other countries of the Commonwealth, and it was proper that its people should decide what its institutions should be and how they should work.
“No one,” he said, “ however ignorant or hostile, could pretend that this would weaken the ties between New Zealand and the other nations of the Commonwealth. It was one more proof to the outside world that the Commonwealth stood for parliamentary democracy and for the full untrammelled freedom of those who worked for it.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 5
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162UNANIMOUS APPROVAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 5
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