MR. DAVY AND SAMSON

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 871, 15 January 1930, Page 8

MR. DAVY AND SAMSON

Sir, • The grotesque situation that has arisen in the ranks of the United Party -would be comical were it not that the w'elfare of this country is concerned. As you have said, the revelations now being mad* are not much more than recitals of f%®ts that have been obvious for some time, but that any party should be reduced to the state of washing its soiled linen in public to this extent is surely unprecedented in New Zealand politics. What is the strength of our Parliamentary Constitution if a party—a party in power—may be swayed and affected by the influence of a paid organiser, one who should have no more influence in questions of policy and control than the commercial agent who handled the party’s advertising in the recent campaign? I bear no ill-will toward Mr. A. E. Davy, who is a shrewd man, doing his job as he thinks fit, but I have nothing but

contempt for the flaccid administrators who appear to have wormed themselves from under his thumb, only to become targets for his rather spiteful shafts. Mr. Davy has become a Samson bitter enough to pull the pillars of the United temple down about his own and everyone else’s ears. Another thing—why this sudden snarling and snapping at Labour, arising out of Reform’s demise and United’s low fever? Possibly it is doing Labour a lot of harm, but I and, I am sure, others, are coming to the conclusion that it is time Labour was given a chance. Australia and England have done so; why not New Zealand? We may be satisfied now, that at least Labour could do no worse. VOTER.