“DERELICTION OF PUBLIC DUTY”
BUSINESS MEN REPROVED FOR NOT VOTING (PRESS assocutioh telegram.) WELLINGTON, November 11. "If any section of the community is too absorbed in its own interests to take the trouble to vote, it has no right to expect any consideration from the party placed in power by those who do vote,” said Mr M. G. C. McCaul at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, when referring to the recent City Council by-election, in which the Labour candidate was elected. Mr McCaul said that out of 70,000 voters, only 20.000, or 28J per cent., went to the polls. He described this as a grave dereliction of public duty, end added that if business people were too preoccupied pursuing their own immediate selush interests, their class was doomed by Nature’s relentless law gradually to be suffocated and eliminated.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 24
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