PAID REPRESENTATION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 11, 26 September 1944, Page 4

PAID REPRESENTATION

Sir, —Recently we have had a suggestion from the Press that the members of our Parliament should have their salaries raised. Most mea are paid according to their and the ability of the. 83 intellectuals who are representing or should be representing us,, is not a represent tation of the common interests of the people. Their ability has been, subjugated to the policy of foreign capital. An increase in! their salar* ies does not mean better administration but more taxation. Under the present policy of botli parties we are being condemned to the bond-* age of National debt, and are losing the sovereignty of the State. It is possible to run this country on more economic lines and reduce our national debt at the same time; by reducing the personal of represen-. tation by at least two-thirds. We could then pay remunerative salt aries for to carry out. the will of the people. I am not alone in voicing this criticism of the wasteful legislation, and the frustration of human effort. There has quite recently been a "Liberators: Council" founded in London; backed by some of. the leading economists and businessmen of thatccityy y and their first plank to get rid of the Bank of "as at present constituted/' and return it to where it should belongs— the State. I would ask how much control have you over your once he, or they are elected? He (the member) has to submit to the leader of his party caucus- (which as I have said before "does not represent the will of the people; but is ruled by pressure from outside, under a foreign policy 3 , fetching the nation under the control of its fiscal administration). The control of your member is the means to control your Government, which means "Na-; tional control of by the people and for the people." Yours etc.^ W. BRADSHAW.