28 109.  The membership of the Law Reform Committees was also drawn from private practice, universities and the public service. 110.  Like   the   LR   Committee   the   Law   Reform   Committees   reported   to   the Government   and   Parliament   through   the   Law   Reform   Division   of   the Department  of  Justice.  The  Law  Reform  Division  of  the  Department  also promoted a number of Bills itself, independently of the Law Reform Committee structure. 111.  The purpose of the LR Commission was to co-ordinate delegation of work to the Law Reform Committees, to maintain a link between the Minister of Justice and the Chairpersons of the Law Reform Committees, and to review the progress of the  Law  Reform  Committees  at  least  once  a  year.    But  in  practice  the  LR Commission had little to do and was virtually inactive.²¹ 112.  The  Law  Reform  Committees  were  nominally  sub-committees  of  the  LR Commission  but  reported  directly  to  the  Minister.  In  practice  the  Minister seldom,   if   ever,   acted   upon   the   reports   without   first   consulting   the   LR Commission.²² 113.  Like its predecessor, the LR Committee, membership of the LR Commission and its sub-committees was part-time and unpaid. Initially the LR Commission met about three times a year, each meeting lasting a full day.  The workload of the sub-committees  was  substantially  heavier  -  in  some  cases  committees  met  for half  a  day  each  week.²³  Much  of  the  academic  writing  at  this  time  notes  the considerable   contribution   of   lawyers   to   law   reform   via   the   Law   Reform Committees,  the  substantial  commitment  of  time  required  and  their  loss  of remuneration in doing this.²⁴ 114.  In relation to the effectiveness of the LR Commission structure Turner J stated in 1969:²⁵ Altogether I have found the Commission a well balanced body, expressive of all shades  of  legal  philosophy,  perhaps  leaning  rather  towards  conservatism  than                                                  21    Above n1, 92. 22    Rt Hon Sir Alexander K Turner “Changing the Law” (1969) 3 NZULR 404, 409. 23   Above n22, 410. 24   See  for  example  “Wellington  Seminar  on  Law  Reform”  [1973]  NZLJ  17;  David  B  Collins “Law Reform: A New Procedure for New Zealand” [1976] NZLJ 441. 25   Above n22, 409.