Public Opinion PARLIAMENTARY ACROBATS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 79, 9 August 1948, Page 4

Public Opinion

PARLIAMENTARY ACROBATS

Sir, —Again we have the Local Bodies Amendment Bill before us. This Bill, with its anomalys for centralised control by a Government that is supposed to represent the people'. We have a good example in the' Harbour Board, Hospital and Municipal elections bill as set forth in the House, on July 27/48. The Government member for Christchurch Central, stated that the report of a Special Parliamentary Commission, is not adamant! That a Government can repudiate it. “In other words, ydu can put a Government into office and it becomes a Dictatorship”; this is making Elections a farce, and the peoples vote is misplaced confidence, when they give their Member an open cheque, without any check on the policy of cither party. It is a lamentable state of things that we have no control over Government, not even a Re-' ferendum, as constituted in Australia. But if the Elector would use his vote the right way, he could control instead of being controled; and there' would be no spoils to the victors. Which is the curse of a Nation! Because the policy of administration is a foreign policy, controlling “Party” politics, and therefore a foreign administration, controlling the Political Economy of the Nation! And is not constitutional to the body politic. General Sir Brian Robertson’s advice to the Germans might well be applied to New Zealanders if they would be true to their inheritance that their forefathers gave them. Yours etc., - W. BRADSHAW. P.S. Note! Page 4 Beacon Press, 2/8/48: One Party in Hell, etc.