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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1928, Page 4

To-nkiut will witness the end of the hurly-burly marking the election campaigns. The general feeling pervading Me country lias been that the public have been universally very quiet. The candidates, however, have been bombarding the electors on all sides, and there lias been a general exposition of policies. The public should he the wiser for all this. If the parties are brought closer together as a result of to-day’s happenings, we may expect better work from Parliament. The sweeping majority won three years ago, was not good for the Country. It can be said that the majority was not used as it might have been in framing good and wholesome laws. Rather was the party content to rest on its oars and live on the reputation of the past. The unemployment trouble was allowed to grow too great without a definite effort to curtail it. It is one of the first issues which must be faced now when the evidences of the present contests are cleared away. Tt will not lie good for the country to drift into another winter without reasonable forethought hr adequate remunerative employment. There is also the question of a definite, land policy as the material factor to solve unemployment. There will therefore be work to do, and the new Parliament which is sure to conlain some new brooms will lie more definitely occupied tlian the last in dealing with important, questions of the hour.