TO-MORROW'S TASK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 December 1931, Page 4

TO-MORROW'S TASK

To-morrow tha electors of Rotorua will have to face the responsibie' task of giving final expression to their political opinions. During the past three weeks eaeh of the four canclidates who seek their suffrages has placed his views very fully before the electors. The campaign has been short and sharp, with the advantage that it has been necessary for political parties and their candidates to keep strictly to the point, avoiding the sideissues which so often tend to obscure the main one. Realising the vital importanee to the eountry of the present elections the 6,Morning Post" has placed the views of e.ach candidate and all parties fully and impartially before the electors, who should now be in a position to make a reasoned decision as to which candidate to support. There is, however, one point which many may find some difficulty in deciding. The Dominion is passing through one of the most severe crises in its history and the Rotorua electorate also has its own peculiar problems. It is therefore important that the man Rotorua sends to Wellington to represent it should be the best man available, both from the national and the local points of view. As a member of Parliament he will have to take his part in the management of the country's business. Four strong candidates are offering their services and those electors whose opinions are not rigidIy tied to party, may have some difficulty in choosing between them. To these it may be suggested that they sit down and quietly consider which of the four candidates they would prefer to entrust with the management of their own business. This is a responsibility which no one would lightly delegate to another and if electors will submit each of the candidates to this test and vote for the man who best survives it, they will, whatever the result, have the satisfaction of knowing that they have exercised their electoral privileges conscientiously and with a sense of the responsibilities which those privileges entail.