CORRESPONDENTS' VEto
REDUCTION OF .MJVg
(To the Editor)
Britain has roughly 70.000 turn to each member of ParlS Xcw /calami ha> 20.000. Eventf*; reduced our representation to «'a suggested, we should only fc£ around half the population to «2 member of Parliament compared! Britain. But reduction of memW of Parliament will not cure the-w»v r.ess of New Zealand's present (V dilution, which i.s the giving ofa •blank cheque" to whichever poM cal party polls a majoritv-^f 0 r thm years. Power is the " alcohol!! politics— its use engenders the ha for more power: therein is our danger. The cure for the ills of our democracy is real demoeracv fa. which the people shall have'tS power instead of the politiHaßSwitzerland points the possesses the initiative, referent and recall, which conserves to & people always the power to dismfe a Government and for a eonstftuettrf to di muss it-- representative Thd N the only real remedy! The Labonr party m opposition had as onetf the plants of i-s platform fe initiative, referendum and recall: fa power this plank is relegated totS lumber room, whore it lies covered with the convenient dust of fore* fulness. MEXRY .1. HAYWaH*
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 109, 10 May 1941, Page 8
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