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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 7

A PLEA FOR THE EXPERT, ‘ To the solution of political and economic problems we make tin approach which we should, usually, never dream of making to the solution of a medical problem. The truth is that we have con'fused the question of the right' to make the decision with the means or making it. Tlie failure to supply the means makes the right a farce. It public and governments accepted expert or educated opinion on the tariff problems 90 per cent, of the diffiulties would disappear. But the expert economist is simply disregarded because the ordinary layman cannot understand the export and flunks he knows better. Our education must aim more at enabling us to be, not experts in fifty subjects, but capable of using the expert’s knowledge. And the technique of government must be so modified as to cease putting to the voter questions which should be put to the expert, and so simplified that the voter, educated so as to avail himself of expert knowledge, can see where the broad issues lay and pass judgment intelligently upon them.”—Mr Norman Angell M.P.

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