BAY OF PLENTY BEACON Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1949 DUTY TO OURSELVES
Today we, the people, have the duty of choosing a Government. We must take that duty seriously. We must not under-esti-mate our democratic privilege of deciding, by secret ballot and as free men and women, who shall govern the affairs of our country for the next three years. ■ Nor must we exercise that privilege lightly, without due consideration of the issues at stake.
Though selfishness and greed are unfortunately two ! of the dominating factors in determining all courses of human action, we should all try, at the polls, to forget our own selfish interests and to place the good of our country and of the greatest number of our fellow citizens as the first consideration in making our final decisions with those fateful pencils in our hands. We have had ample opportunities to study the policies of the rival parties, and to assess the sincerity and ability of the candidates offering. We know the background and have a fairly clear idea of the aims of the two groups who offer themselves as our servants for the coming term.
We must remember our responsibilities as employers selecting executives to run the affairs of our country. We should have studied the qualifications of the applicants for the jobs with exceeding care ere this. And we should satisfy ourselves, when we vote, that we are electing people who WilNbe our good and faithful servants, acting in the interests of the country as a whole at all times, people who will be above all types of corruption, and who will have the courage and the strength of character to carry out whichever policy we endorse to the best of their ability. Above all, we should remember that our democracy can only function successfully if we all Vote as intelligent New Zealanders. with the interest's of New Zealand at heart.
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321BAY OF PLENTY BEACON Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1949 DUTY TO OURSELVES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 70, 30 November 1949, Page 4
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