REFORM'S RECORD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 August 1928, Page 6

REFORM'S RECORD.

MR. POTTER AND A QUESTIONER.

(To the Editor.)

At his meeting the other night Mr. V. Potter declared that there was far too modi money spent on the totalisator. Yet when I interjected that it was his Government that increased the racing permits, he did not explain why. Yes, these racing permits were increased at a time when most workers had difficulty in paying their way, and I wish to again challenge Mr. Potter and his Reform colleagues to justify it. Dealing with unemployment, Mr. Potter said a great many workers do not give a fair day's work for a fair day's pay. There is some truth in this, but there will always be good, bad and indifferent workers. Are men and women to starve because they are only moderately good workers? Of course, in times of depression the best men will not be sacked first. Let us hope that the employers of our politicians will adopt the usual course at the next elections and dismiss the inefficient legislators. When I asked Mr. Potter to explain his position on the bus regulations he said that he opposed them because his district would suffer the most. He said the regulations were good, but the City Council had failed to carry out its pledges. The simple fact is that the regulations, which make a body that is in the business the licensing authority, are wholly unstatesmanlike and contrary to recognised rules of British justice and common law. I also challenged Mr. Potter to state what was Reform's land policy to settle the poor man on the land, and he admitted they had none. E. STEVENSON.