ELECTORAL INQUIRY
LIBERAL PARTY NOMINATES LORD HEWART INTERESTING PRECEDENT British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. The Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Hewart. has accepted nomination by Mr. Lloyd George as one of the Liberal representatives on a body which is to inquire into the question of electoral reform. The selection of the Chief Justice for an inquiry of this nature appears to create an interesting precedent. When the Marquess of Reading was Chief Justice, he undertook a special mission to the United States during the war. However, the pending threeparty inquiry into electoral reform differs from an ambassadorial function Buch as 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 In that period Attorney-General and a Cabinet Minister, made no secret of his opposition to the then prevalent view that the holder of the position of Chief Justice should be aloof from State affairs. . .
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 744, 17 August 1929, Page 11
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160ELECTORAL INQUIRY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 744, 17 August 1929, Page 11
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