TWO NEW MEMBERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1941, Page 4

TWO NEW MEMBERS

APPOINTED TO UPPER HOUSE TERMS OF FOUR OTHERS RENEWED. NUMBER OF RETIREMENTS. IBy Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Six appointments to the Legislative Council were announced last evening by the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash. They are as follows: — Mr James Cumming (Wellington). Mr Richard Eddy (Wellington). Mr Thomas Francis O’Byrne (Southland). Mr William Perry (Wellington). Mr Fred. Waite, D.S.O. (Otago). Mr Vincent A. Ward (Wellington). The first two named are new appointments, and the other four reappointments.

With the appointments to the Legislative Council announced last evening there are now 31 members of that Chamber. The Hons. T. F. O’Byrne, W. Perry, F. Waite and V. A. Ward, who have all been reappointed, were originally appointed on June 22, 1934, their seven-year term of appointment, therefore, expiring on Sunday. Seven others held .appointments from the same date, but they have not been renewed. These are the Hons. J. Alexander (Auckland), T. Bloodworth (Auckland), A. Burns (Auckland), E. R. Davis (Auckland), W. Hayward (Canterbury), J. McLeod (Taranaki), and Sir Heaton Rhodes (Canterbury). The term of Sir James Allen (Otago), which has also not been renewed, expired on June 1. Before these retirements there were 37 members of the Council. The two new members, Messrs Eddy and Cumming have both been long and actively associated with the trade union movement and the Labour Party.