Preliminary to Local
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Government
Norfolk Is., Aug. 2.
THERE was a shake-up in the election of members for what may be Norfolk Island’s last Advisory Council, and the addition of two young and energetic men should be useful in the hard job of implementing Mr. Hasluck’s Norfolk Island Bill, which won the approval of the Federal Government recently, and which gives local government powers to a “Norfolk Island Council.”
If the new Council tackles its job with commonsense and in a serious manner much good can come from the new legislation.
The two “elder statesmen” beaten were Councillors Goddard and Gandy and the new Council now consists of Island-born members or members married to Island-born wives.
The Councillors elected were: Ball Bay—D. T. Edward and W. T.
McCoy.
Cascade. —J. D. Patterson.
Mount Pitt.—A. S. Bathie.
Kingston.—R. H. H. Nobbs (elected unopposed).