LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM
Sir.—Samuel Craighead suffers from a common delusion about democracy—the belief that it confers on every individual and every group the right to db as he or it pleases, regardless of the interests of the community. The Local Government Commission Act gave no one dictatorial powers. It merely authorised the appointment of a highlyqualified commission to recommend to the Government schemes of local .government reform. The principles at the legislation were approved by both parties in Parliament and by the local bodiei; the members of the commission were appointed from the men most trusted and most respected bv the national organisations of local bodies. The “little reactionary interests’’ have stated their case fully and it has been considered impartially. They have no right now to expect the Government to reverse the judicial finding just because they do not like it.—Yours, etc., MENTAL GYMNAST. October 14, 195 a
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26244, 16 October 1950, Page 3
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