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Sir, — I assess the letter of Stan Hemsley (July’ 4) which concludes with New Zealand’s desperate need for a Bill of Rights and a Freedom of Information Act to be one of the most consequential ever to be printed in your columns. But how
does one overcome the apathy of voters and the arrogance of the present dictatorial administration to bring these fundamental democratic principles into being? I am sincerely motivated in seeing the process of these very essential principles into law irrespective of which party is in power. However, only a few people seem to appreciate the gravity of their exclusion. I respectfully suggest that a pro-con article re the above would be most helpful. — Yours, etc. ARTHUR MAY. July 3, 1980. [lt is to be hoped that the interested parties made their submissions first to the Committee on Official Information. — Editor]
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