THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 244, 3 July 1918, Page 6

THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

VIEWS OF FARMERS' UNION. Tho agenda paper for the annual conference of the Now Zealand Farmers' Union, to be held on July 30, at Wellington, contains several remits touching upon the question of the system of government 'of tho Dominion. Amongst the resolutio is set down for discussion upon the malter are the following from Auckland:—

"That this conference considers that the need for impiovement in our system of government is undoubted, and that in view of the present cessation of party warfare, the present time is most opportune for the consideration and inauguration of means for the improvement of our Parliamentary system, and wo call upon our National Government to deal with the question at once." "That, it being tho opinion of this conference that our system of party government is fair from satisfactory, and the need of some better is the most important question concerning the political life and government of our country, tho incoming executive bo instructed to originate public meetings in the cities, and throughout the country to discuss the question, with the aim of bringing representatives of all sections of tho community together to devise methods by which a system more suited to the requirements of thoroughly representative government may be evolved and brought into operation." "That in view of the need of revision of our political system, the incoming executive be instructed to oMain information on various 101*111 s <>f Parlianieiitai) representation, nnd suitable systems of government thereunder, and prepare means of disseminating this information throughout our union and the country ge The a 'principle of an elective executive is advocated by tho r e^, r " 3 A lnl °"' which has forwarded the following ic--I£l''That in the opinion of members of the Farmers' Union, this Dominion should do away for tho future w»th anj system of party government, and, m place should institute government by an elective executive, on the lines of the Swiss Government, tlrus ensuring the utilisation' of the best brams m' the country and national efficiency m every Government Department during tbs cnperiod that the Dom nuni is almost certain to pass through after the war. Tho Marlborough _ Union has alsci se in a remit favouring the abolition ct party gov"rnment, and Taranaki prono«s that the union should resist: any attempt to extend the principle of the ie with the of bo called to the fact ' dition of things. ,