SIDE-TRACKING THE ISSUE.
Parliament is quite justified in setting up a committee to decide whether one or more of its members have been guilty of breach ot privilege. It has no justification, however, for allowing the main issue ol whether the Ward Party has the confidence of the country to be side-tracked or eonfused. Parliament was called together for the specific purpose of ascertaining whether 0110 or other of the great parties had a majority sufficient to carry on the affairs oi the country. This purpose could only 'be achieved by a test division, and this division should have been taken at the earliest possible moment. The delay which has taken place has been both costly and annoying. The responsibility for it rests with those who have deliberately bl-ockeed a division. It is to be feared that when the division is now taken it will be so inconclusive as to render stable government a matter of impossibility. The only solution of the problem will now 'be an appeal to the country.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10568, 26 February 1912, Page 4
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171SIDE-TRACKING THE ISSUE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10568, 26 February 1912, Page 4
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