CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8] — Page 352

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number of five is sufficient,

but as there is a

good deal of

feeling expressed from time to time that those persons of European and American nationalities who are neither members of the Chamber of Commerce, nor justices of the peace have no representative in Council, I would recommend that they should have one, and that their voting privileges should be based on the rents they pay.

I think that it would be of considerable assistance to the Government to have one unofficial member of Council of English birth in the Executive Council. Many

questions continually arise in which knowledge and

experience

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348 number of five is sufficient, but as there is a good deal of feeling expressed from time to time that those persons of European and American nationalities who are neither members of the Chamber of Commerce, nor justices of the peace have no representative in Council, I would recommend that they should have one, and that their voting privileges should be based on the rents they pay. I think that it would be of considerable assistance to the Government to have one unofficial member of Council of English birth in the Executive Council. Many questions continually arise in which knowledge and experience
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348 number of five is sufficient, but as there is a good deal of feeling expressed from time to time that those persons of European and American nationalities who are neither members of the Chamber of Commerce, nor justices of the peace have no representative in Conncil, I wouldrecom- -mend that they should have one, and that their voting privileges should be based on the rents they pay. I think that it would be of considerable assistance to the Government to have one unofficial member of Cornicel of English birth in the Executive Council. Many questions continually arise in which knowledge and experience
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348

number of five is sufficient,

but as there is a

good deal of

feeling expressed from time to time that those persons of European and American nationalities who are neither members of the Chamber of Commerce, nor justices of the peace have no representative in Conncil, I wouldrecom- -mend that they should have one, and that their voting privileges should be based on the rents they pay.

I think that it would be of considerable assistance to the Government to have one unofficial member of Cornicel of English birth in the Executive Council. Many

questions continually arise in which knowledge and

experience

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