THE PARLIAMENTARY TERM.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20658, 22 September 1932, Page 17

THE PARLIAMENTARY TERM.

VO THK M'TIOK O? TUI': VU£.SS. -riir,—lt !111iI(i11fj;I\ t luu, 0110 i«,_ jjiiw the «»?sion u itli a ; j„ ;j, ( . so critical liln<v on,; Mould In in [ a l <c L • wiy of silence n ' co-ope rut ion when . national need i» so groat. IJut, Mr Forbes lias _flnug do-.vi? his w | oTe to the country in Ins obedient and instant course as to the fourth year t»o men dm ' to get through before New Zealand waif 1 -. -Not a low ivumcii, at ;i f I events, will take up Mr .Forbes's glove, and thai for two reasons. Kirsfc he ■takes too much upon himself, lotting the business ho is entrusted with .suffer ) ■ '.'Vhilo lie i» doiny another Prime .Yl;r/istsr s 01 k. 11sa.\ s he luust . this ;' ! Year for «|| time. }■; But it is only for a little that I 'he has to eon corn himself with New , Zealand's future. Lot him feed Urn . ..hungry and fix up the Ottawa agreements; constitutional changes like, (his ' will not concern Mr Forbes at, all. save A as a private citizen. Becond. it be , ,h#<l all the limp Ibere is, :in,J Uinl jf ' mandate from ihe country whieh lu ( dire neither wait nor ask tor. he lias v rro business to drag New Zealand back * to the level of countries hich re not * r v».,'Basfc the archaic stage of r.epresrnta .v- tion. Three years is the lousiest finin progressive countries allow to he put - betao<'ii a member and .his eonstitu;<mts. though we am well understand certain politicians desiring n period of t ' four or I'oi-tv years. And there can , b(? no ''general desire" fur such retrogression in a State so well informed as .New Zealand. We : ,]| know .that there is a keen desire tor it in ; r certain rdiarters. hut. that is another story, which Mr 'Forbes wotild ,1., well ~E'v-iiot- to raise at this moment.--Tours, etc.. i"' JKW. >f,\( K \Y. •'Jc; • .September I'lst. 1932. / i\