NOMINATIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 168, 21 October 1892, Page 5

NOMINATIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL .

The Government have made the following nominations to the Legislative Council : The working men nominated are—W Jennings, Auckland ; J. Rigg, Wellington ; J. Jenxinson, Christchurch ; W. Bolt, Dunedin. The names of the others nominated are—W. McCullough, Auckland ; Hon. E. Richardson, Wellington; Thos. Kelly, Taranaki; Wm. Montgomery, W C. Walker, Canterbury ; James Kerr, Westland ; John Mcgregor, Otago ; Henry Feldwick, Southland. Five of the twelve have been members of the House of Representatives. Messrs Jennings and Rigg are printers by profession, and Messrs McCullough, Kerr, and Feldwick are newspaper proprietors so that tbe members of the Fourth estate cannot complain of having been slighted. The Auckland representatives are, Mr W. McCullough, proprietor of the ‘ Thames Star,’ and Mr W. Jennings, at present foreman of the typographical staff of the N.Z. Graphic. Mr McCullough is well known at the Thames where he has served in many public capacities. He arrived in the colony in 1859 and has had experience as a miner as well as a journalist. He has been connected with the * Thames Star ’ for twenty years. Mr W Jennings was horn in Auckland in 1854 and there served his apprenticeship to the printing trade, which occupation he has followed through life. He has always taken a warm interest in politics and has been connected with the Knights of Labour, Trades and Labour Council, Liberal Association, Tailoresses Union, and other bodies, but can by no means be termed a : labour agitator,’ He has ever been a worker and a thinker rather than a talker, and a man of good common sense, and of all the labour representatives we have met in Auckland wa know of no other more suited for the position conferred upon him than Mr W. Jennings, and we have much pleasure in congratulating him upon his nomination.

The whole of the appointments have been well received in all quarters and the Government have scored another point by their judicious selection. They acted very wisely in eschewing those old politicians of a doubtful character who were anxious for nomination.