THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8329, 10 January 1907, Page 5

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

PROBABLE APPOINTMENTS. In an evidently inspired reference to the Legislative Council, the Lyttelton Times says that probably the Government will think it necessary to make twelve or fourteen appointments. It is an open secret that one of these will go to a well-known professional gentleman in Wellington, who had stood for some time 011 the borderland of politics, and another to a former representative of New Plymouth in the Lower House. It is understood, partly from current rumour and partly from what has fallen from Ministers themselves, that an attempt will be made to distribute the rest of the appointments on what has been called an "occupation basis."' There may be four or five representatives of labour chosen, two or three representatives of agriculture, and possibly two representatives of professions. The commercial representatives will be drawn from a class not usually in sympathy with the Government, and it is quitp on the cards that Cabinet will take at. least one gentleman who has not given hitherto anything but "a very loose adhesion to the party. An appointment of that kind would be very keenly criticised, and obviously it would be a poor, compliment to commercial men of "right colour." The agricultural representatives, it is said, will be farmers of some political experience.

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