QUESTION THE CANDIDATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 8

QUESTION THE CANDIDATES.

A SUGGESTION FOR XEEHHG&.

(To the Editor.)

May I suggest to candidates of all that they condense their set speeches "rasuS more time for questions? The decland Miier of each of the three parties has been pal«Sz and reiteration of it by the waste of time, for if they don't suhsaih* k its fundamental clauses then they are on false pretences. Apart from questions there are scores of others in vU the electors are interested and on opinion of each candidate should he knova. Hence the value of questions, and plenty them. In his set speech the t— the electors what he wants them to know what he doesn't tell them is often jut wfeftthey came to learn. Some candidate*, ni l many chairmen, appear to thinfe *H ' are prompted by hostility. Some of ttiiil certainly are, but that is no reason for wmM pressing them or ruling them out of irift. y* the candidate is elected to Parliament it be three years before his constituents win the opportunity of questioning him apdg, why should he not be thoroughly exaalMi now? A final point, and not the least ino*?tant, is that if the greater part of mik political meeting were taken up with the electors present would find it mm*! enjoyable, for they would be active witM. 2 pants. At present the electors are i tpeetsj to " sit still and be talked at. otVs

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