VITAL DECISIONS WITHHELD FROM PEOPLE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VIEW NAPIER, Wednesday. "There is an increasing tendency to eonduct matters of vital public concern behind closed doors. It is becoming commonplace not to reveal details of settlements of disputes or the policy the Government decides to adopt at internatioii&l conferences," said Mr. W. H. Hindle, in • his presidential address to the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce which opened at Napier today. Mr. Hindle added that very often news of vital deeisions reaehed the people of the Dominion through the medium of some other couptry. "This sort of thing is not democratic," he said. "I mentiora the matter in order to draw public attention to an insidious practice that has grown up in our midst and with a6 view to having the remedy of 'tell the people , everything' substituted instead."
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1947, Page 4
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