Party Government:

A Debate in the House of Representatives, on August 15, 1890,

On the Resolution moved by Dr. Hodgkinson,

"That a Committee be appointed to consider and report as to the possibility of devising a system of appointing the Executive Government such as may be free from the evils of the present system; to report in a fortnight: the said Committee to consist of Mr. Saunders, Mr. Tanner, Major Steward, Mr. Samuel, Mr. Verrall, Mr. O'Conor, Mr. Monk, Dr. Newman, Captain Russell, and the mover."

Wellington George Didsbury, Government Printer 1890.