Local government
Sir, —No elected government can legitimately take away the right of citizens to vote on constitutional issues. As a member of Riccarton’s antiamalgamation action committee, I tried to persuade various Government Ministers to agree to a straight yes or no vote by ratepayers of Christchurch on any
amalgamation proposal which the commission might put forward. I thought I had Mike Moore’s verbal promise that he would support such a vote. In the absence of a wider poll, Riccarton, I hope, will hold its own poll. With Waimairi, judging from Mrs Murray’s statements, having given up the fight, it would make little difference to the extravagant, costly empire-building of Sir Hamish and others if Riccarton remained as a small island of sanity in the surrounding bureaucratic bog.—Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. October 9, 1988.
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