THE COUNTRY QUOTA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 163, 12 July 1945, Page 7

THE COUNTRY QUOTA

CHALLENGE TO GOVERNMENT? Parliamentary Reporter. WELLINGTON, this day. "If you get people out into the country there will be no need to introduce the country quota, declared Mr. Clyde Carr (Govt., Timaru) in the House of Representatives yesterday when speaking m the Address-in-Reply debate. ' People were crowding into the cities, he said,- and it was admitted on all sides that there was a falling off in the country P°P ula^ on r ;i of if the population was properly distributed there would be no need to maintain electoral balances by an artificial quota' system. Mr R • M;'- : MacFarlane - (Govt., Christchurch SouthX said the: principles of democracy had been.fought for during the war and in his view, one of the. first principles of democracy w.asjlie; principle .0f...0ne man, one vote. ; z' ■ „ T „. . Mr -T-—Clifton- "Webtr (Nat, Kaipara): You have that now Mr. MacFarlane that that was notthecase- If« m » that the loading of constituencies by 28-per cent was furthering.or early practice the pnnaple of one itian, one vote, then he had a lot to learn about the meaning f words He thought.it was high time: tne Opposition announced -its-Policy. The Opposition ftf°S raising the.;issue of ■■■ e „_ c ° u £H_ quota He Believed lenge to the Government some .thing about.it, and he-could assure the, Opposition that at any time he was quite prepared to. take up the •challenge.