15yr term for M.P.s advocated
PA Wanganui The Values Party has released its Government Reform , policy, advocating a 15-year maximum term for members of Parliament, proportional representation, and a greater role for local government.
The party’s spokesman on government ana law reform, Mr R. W. Holmes, of Wanganui, told a meeting in Levin that the party wanted to “head off the sort of government developing in New Zealand —- big, centralised . . . and requiring a large, distant, faceless bureaucracy.” On Parliamentary reform, Mr Holmes said people expected too much of their members. They were “glorified social workers,” and were expected to be community leaders and experts on national and other Parliamentary activities at the same time.
“The result is that good people bum out, their family life suffers, and a great many things are done poorly,” he said.
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Press, 26 July 1978, Page 15
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