GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL.
Parliament last wc*ak, at the risk of being considered positively rude to the Ministry, decided that there was too much ' 'Governor-in-Coim-cil" about the present management of th? Dominion's affairs. Consequently it eliminated the provision in t-lie Town Planning Bill which required 'that the finding of a Board of experts should be subject to the whim and fancy of' the Ministry of the day. As Mr Massey stated in his speech in Masterton on SaturI day night, uiq representatives of the i people have been shorn of almost the last vestige of their privileges. They are merely automata in the hands , of Ministers, who can do practically what tliey like just bow they like. Need it be asked ,if tliis is consistent., with modern conceptions of democratic government p
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1033, 14 August 1911, Page 4
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129GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1033, 14 August 1911, Page 4
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