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5 unusual facts about New Zealand Legislative Council


John Curling

John Curling was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1 June 1857 to 1 May 1861, when he resigned.

Joseph Dresser Tetley

Joseph Dresser Tetley was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 8 July 1867 to 19 June 1869, when he resigned.

New Zealand Legislative Council

To assist its passage into law, Holland appointed twenty members known as the "suicide squad", to vote for abolition, just as the Australian state of Queensland had done to abolish its upper house in 1922.

They were John Salmon, William Swainson and Frederick Whitaker on 26 May 1853; Mathew Richmond on 23 June 1853; and on 31 December 1853 Edmund Bellairs, George Cutfield, William Kenny, John Yeeden Lloyd, Ralph Richardson, Henry Seymour, Henry St. Hill and John Charles Watts-Russell.

Suicide squad

Suicide squad (New Zealand), 25 politicians appointed in 1950 to the New Zealand Legislative Council to assist passage of an Act of Parliament to abolish the Council.



see also

Andrew Allen

Andrew Henson Allen (1877–1963), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council

Mary Anderson

Mary Patricia Anderson (1887–1966), one of the first women appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council

Robert McMillan

Robert Thomas McMillan (1887–1962), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council