FURTHER MUZZLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 6

FURTHER MUZZLING.

I Afi a reader of the "Star'? for the past forty years and one who would not consider I had read the "Star" unless I read the correspondence and glanced at the leader and subleader I wish to enter my emphatic protest a-rainst the compulsory signing- of the names of the contributors. It is the thin end of the wedge for the complete muzzling of the Press, just as. the bogus Labour party has completely j muzzled the radio. If it thinks it is going to (win through by this sort of intolerance it is 'very much mistaken. The riarht to use a notn de plume is exactly like the secret ballot, which had to be foiight for very hard. Why is the Government afraid of criticism? If it fearlessly did the rieht thin? it would welcome criticism. It knows very well that there is a strong and growing feeling against its complete failure to carry out its pledges to reduce the load of taxation on the poor. Tts housincr scheme has nvned manv small builders, and not only failed to provkle cheap houses to those most in need of them, but it has caused such a disastrous shortage of houses that the Government has been forced in its dilemma not to allow the owner of a house to live in the home he has bought for liMi-.-elf unless he finds the tenant a suitable puice. Are not the Government houses suitable? The election of the Labour party to power should teach us this one lesson: That all parties are selfish and unreliable at hea'-t ard that the principal difference between the Labour party and the Nationalists is the name, with a little more intolerance on the side of Labour. E. STEVENSON".