Elected Council
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For Solomons
The British Solomon Islands Pro tectorate next year will have a partly elected Legislative Council in place of its present fully appointed one. fhe council elections will be held later this year.
T H IS decision follows a report of a special select committee of the Council which was appointed last year to examine proposals for elec tion of members. The report was re leased in Honiara on April 16.
The proposal for elected members was made by the Government in a White Paper published last October.
The select committee recommended that eight unofficial members out of the 10 in council should be elected the remaining two to be nominated’
Seven of the eight should be elected indirectly by an electoral college composed of elected members of local councils, and the eighth, to represent Honiara, should be elected directly from a common roll.
Adoption of the report will be moved in the BSIP Legislative Coun cil in June.