THE FARMERS' UNION AND THE ELECTIVE EXECUTIVE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 260, 29 December 1914, Page 3

THE FARMERS' UNION AND THE ELECTIVE EXECUTIVE.

Major Lusk, the President of the farmers' Union for the Auckland Province, has issued to branches of that body a circular upon the subject of the Elective Executve. In it he remind members that on three separate occasions the Union has at its annual conference passed resolutions affirming its approval of the principle of the Elective Executive, and directing that a committee should be set up to draft a scheme for government by Ministers elected by vote. The circular directs the attention of members to the evils that have grown up around the system of Party Government, and asks the branches to devote sufficient time to the subject to enable it to be fully discussed, and to forward any good suggestions made to the bead office for the guidance of the Provincial Executive. Stress is laid upon the great waste of time and unseemlv wrangling caused by the continual efforts of the Opposition to oust the party on the Government benches, and Switzerland is refered to as an instance of a country where the principle has long been successfully in operation. The circular concludes: Let us, therefore ask for and insist upon a change, and mark that the present fault} system keeps many first-class men from giving their'services to the councils of our country, and also prevents us having I at any one time the service* of the I eight most able and experienced men in Parliament as our executive I officers.