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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 3

\s ft people we are too prone to “put it up to the Government” to do this and to do that! and Governments have been too prone to listen, witli the result that already we have a multiplicty of State which threaten to increase still further, course, when we urge the Government to relieve us of the trouble and expense of doing the tliniß for o« - selves, we do so in the belief tl at a new Department will be cieatec carry out the behests of thei peep e but in actual practice we often fine that the Departments are apt to W that viewpoint and ndm.n ster the powers vested in them in the belie that tlie people are apt here to < _ they require. As a consequence, there is a loss of that liberty which we prize so highly anda restriction placed u P° n private initiative. —Hawera Y 5 ar.