First Legco
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BSIP Announces First Legco
From a Honiara Correspondent The British Solomon Islands Advisory Council will go out of existence on October 17 and the BSIP’s new Legislative Council will come into being from the 18th. The composition of the Legco, announced in October, is as forecast in “PIM” of August. Names of new members will be announced on the 18th.
There will be the High Com missioner as president, plus 11 official members (Chief Sec retary, Attorney General, Financial Secretary ex officio) and 10 unofficial (six Mela nesians) all of them to be ap pointed for two years. Meetings will be twice yearly, the inaugural meeting to be in December.
The Executive Council will comprise eight and include four unofficials. It will have its first meeting in November.