OUR POLITICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 246, 17 October 1928, Page 6

OUR POLITICS.

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(To the Editor.l I What is wrong with Coatest I 1 like to know what is wrong with ' Zealand electors. We are now in that a j when the usual triennial avalanche of ft speeches is hurled at us, and the j Zealander, who ignores politics for suddenly becomes a student of economy, and in his endeavour to gets a bad attack of political indimtiMt! 1906, the year of the death ol Vr. Sir the . Dominion was overwhelming!? the parties standing, Government MLJflZSir' tion 15. By 1912 we had changed th» JaSSf • of forty-five to a minority. For lixttn ' we have kept a Tory Government ' Despite all the hysteria that has beeainSf . to show why this is thus, I attribute tfc trouble to the indifference of the *2 majority of the people to political mattttLl notice that now the Dominion is i> ' of a most emphatic depression that i* V? offered all kinds of remedies. Why » £ average New Zealander so indifferent to affairs? Why is he so gullible? so easily side-tracked? For democratic people to change over $aafc» years from Liberal to Conservative do reason) is unexplainable. The Nnr fu lander is said to be sport mad. Bot aa a* vidual may be sport mad and tiill eye on his business affairs. I woofer <£! the average New Zealander realise E I Government of a country is either a natiM curse or a blessing? "What's w niit Coates?" There is nothing wrong withGnfitf The average New Zealander shonld tmiiS# searchlight of criticism on himself. SSii?! HERBERT MCLVIHIU.-fe