MR R. M. MACFARLANE AND DEMOCRACY
TO TUB EDITOB OF TH* tUKbS. Sir, —Last night Councillor R. M. Macfarlane. at the Civic reception to the Prime Mnister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), said that "democracy had not failed." I wonder just what this City Councillor's ideas ure on this subject. He has remained mute, as far hh I know, while the City Council has trampled the rights of the residents of Spreydon and Opawa, and the city generally, hi reference to the dumping of city garbage, in spite of the almost unanimous protest of the people intimately concerned. Then, when instructed by the Christchurch Tramway Board to vote in a certain manner in reference to the tunnel road proposal, he voted against his instructions, and only escaped a vote of censure by voting against the latter himself. If Mr Macfarlane is an exDonent of democracy my understanding of democratic principles must be faulty.—Yours, etc.. HIRAM HUNTER. September 3, 1937.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 14 September 1937, Page 13
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