Dear Sir

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 41, 16 June 1947, Page 4

Dear Sir

Letters to the Editor must be clearly written on one side of the paper only and where a nom-de-plume is used the name* of the writer must be included for reference purposes. The Editor reserves the right to abridge, amend or withhold any letter or letters. 7 ; WAIKATO ELECTRIC SCHEME ;. i' •• Sir, —Interference.in small matters, apart from being undesirable, must produce an over-riding policy, and if unlimited latitude is allowed even in regulation-making, “cqntrol of policy” goes with it.” To illustrate my point I will quote the case of the proposed control of the Waikato watershed into one huge centralised electrical power scheme. I contend that the proposals represent an overriding policy which will be empowered by sanctions of the law (dictatorship) to sweep all vested interests out of its path. It may be admitted that the objective is more for factory industry, and even for electrochemical industry. When and by whom was it decided that one vested interest is more important than several? It is a symptom of degeneration of thinking power when this phrase “vested interest,” which merely means- stability of tenure, should appear without amplification as though it described a public evil. The widespread distribution of vested interests would be the best guarantee of social stability ever. This sweeping away of minor interests is policy in action. But the policy is not defined, and is carefully kept, from parliamentary discussion. New Zealand is geographically an ideal country for de-centralised water power for all industry. It is not hard to identify monopoly as a dictatorship by centralisation, in the form of cartels, broadcasting, the Transport Board and water power for industry (such as the Tennessee Valley authority in the U.S.A.) This is typical of what may be described as the contempt or disregard of political morality which seems inseparable from the partnership of Socialism and international cartellism which is the force behind it. Thus we see the approach of the final phase (perhaps) of a- longtime policy, the pernicious ingenuity of which has been first fostered by subtle craft, and then by. utilising the belief in full employment to serve as an excuse and a means whereby man’s activities may eventually be brought under the control of the State. What are the lovers of,, and the defenders of freedom doing to oppose the forces which in the name of freedom itself—the bear in his pit has “freedom in security” but is centralised—are working to complete man’s regimentation and condition him for a world work State of Communism. Yours etc., J W. BRADSHAW.