WHAT IS PARLIAMENT DOING?

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 47, 20 November 1918, Page 6

WHAT IS PARLIAMENT DOING?

Sir—l have read some correspomWies about Parliament in your valuable paper, and I nm moved to write also because of the statement you make this morning of what Parliament is going to do. It seems that notwithstanding all the multiludinous matters artising out of the war Parliament is only going to be asked to pass a Liquor Bill and sign cheques for enough money to carry on. Is tins what Parliament has como to? They have bean in session for a month,, and what lias boon done? Nothing at all. Of course we have had an armistice and an epidemic, and then the cheques hnve to ho sh'iicd in a hurry and the Liquor Hill' passed to let Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward away to the Peace Conference! Meantime, the affair? of New Zealand' mav go hang! Who wants a Liquor Bill, anyhow? A minority petition' asks for a referendum to pay compensation to liquor, and- a majority petition seeks a three-issue ballot, paper at the next election. These petitions are partisan movements and is the Prime Minister and his National Cabinet to allow partisan influences make him postpone dealing with the very important matters of repatriation, demobilisation, and the sub- > iect matter of your first leader thia morning? If the Prime Minister can only think of Liquor Bills and such:rubbisii at a- time like this, then it is about time there was a general election. 1 ii» eountrv is thoroughly discontented vitli the efforts of the National Government as constituted'to solve the many afterwar problems with which we are now confronted, and which ar? becoming most urgent in the face of. our returning soldiers.—l am, etc., _„ v CITIZEN. . —