SEPARATION.

Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 2045, 30 August 1876, Page 3

SEPARATION.

(To the Editor of the Star.)

Sir, —Sir George Grey and his party having gone in strongly for their plan of Separation, (only a partial step in the right direction, by the way) and lost their game, it behoves the people of New Zealand who have that project at heart to consider what steps they ought to take in the interval. There is small doubt the matter will finally be carried even if, like the celebrated Reform Bill, it should take more than one session to accomplish it. What will be the gain in the event of Separation being made aufait accompli ? Well, no time will be lost session after session in fruitless quarrels between North and South; no such severs party bickerings will take the place of straight-forward debate, and matters before the House will find swift settlement. The two islands continually being at logger-heads the cry of Separation is a most necessary one, and will finally meet the consideration at the hands of the people's representatives it deserves. The two islands, under two distinct Colonial Governments, will then go ahead, and no longer be in the stagnation so accustomed to be met with in New Zealand of the past. With one Governor and one Parliament in each island, (instead of nine Governments and a big one to crow over them), the two Colonies will be more friendly, and will then push forward in the race of nations. —I am, etc., P.H.S.

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