PARTY'S "BIG STICK."
MEMBERS SHACKLED. CANDIDATE'S STATEMENT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Candour marked the address, of Mr. E. L. Hills, Independent Labour candidate for the Lyttelton. seat, at a meeting at Sumner last evening. He stated that Parliament should be freed from the shackles of party. The "big stick" was wielded by party leaders, and if members of the rank and file did not i obey they would lose their positions. "The people of New Zealand," he said, "are entirelv responsible for the mess 1 Parliament Is in. If they had been as i intelligent as the politicians have told them they were, the country would not i have been in the position it is in to-day." Ministers to Speak. The Minister of Lands, the Hon. E. ' A. Kansom, will leave for Lyttelton tomorrow night to take part in the Lyttelton by-election campaign. The acting Prime Minister, the Et. Hon. J. G. Coates, will speak at Lyttelton in the last week of the contest.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 7
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