Nominated Members
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"Can Be Critics”
rpHE position of nominated mem- A bers in Fiji’s Legislative Counci' was made clear by the Gover nor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, in his opening address to the newly elected Council in October.
He said that nominated members were most valuable because it was clearly desirable that the Council should have the opinions and ad vice of as many sections of the population as possible.
Nominated members, he pointed out, were just as free to criticise the Government and voice their true feelings as any of the elected members.