THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1920, Page 5

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

SUGGESTED NEW MEMBERS. SIX NAMES MENTIONED. (By TelegTaph—Special Correspondent.). Wellington, Last Night. It has already been announced that the Government intends to appoint some half-a-dozen members to the Legislative Council, and it may now be stated witsi some degree of certainty who those new members are to be. In the first place the two members who retired on June 27 by effsuxion of time are to be re-appointed—Messrs C. A. C. Hardy and W- Earnshaw. The new members, it is understood, will be: The Hon. E. Mitchelson, of Auckland, a former member of the Bouse aad of the Ministry. Colonel G. J. Smith, a member of the Council until 1914, and soma time commandant at Sling Camp during the war. Mr. Mark Cohen, lately editor of the Dunedin Evening Star. Mr. E. Clark, who represented Chalmers from 1908 till 1914 in the House of Representatives. Mr. R. Scott, who sat for many years in the House for Otago Central, and was defeated at the last election for Wakatipu, his own seat having disappeared owing to the alteration of boundaries. Mr. P. J. Nerheny, a Tetired builder and contractor, of Auckland, and a member of the City Council and other local bodies. j It is understood that two of these appointments were agreed upon in the days of the National Government, and that both of them were made at the instance of Sir Joseph Ward's side of the Government, and that the two he recommended were Colonel Smith andoMr. Nerheny.