Political Parties
Sir,—Permit me to express my congratulations upon your leader in Saturdav’s “Dominion,” when dealing with the subject, “The Machinery of Government. You conclude by saying, with special reference to the three-party system, that electors should “reflect whether the third wheel should not be eliminated.” feir, you express the views of almost all those many thousands of. reasonable and thinking people who are opposed to, and afraid ot, the doctrines of the present Labour Party, and who at the same time are not among the comparatively few “blind followers ot either Reform or United. In round numbers. 550.000 persons in 1928 out ot a total of 750.000, voted for any party but the Labour Party. What of the will and the wish of the people? Why, at the pre sent of all times should we have to suomit. to a position of Labour obstruction and to face even the possibility of a posttion of danger such as that confronting the people of Australia? Travelling the country as I do. I know there is a strong feeling in favour of an amalgamation, if only for the time being, of the two main political parties. Reform and United are of much the same nund in regard to the necessity for action in our present, economic crisis, and also as to the methods to be adopted. Why. then, have a general election this year? When the expenditure of every pound has to be watched, is it too ranch for ns to ask that the powers that lie, considering the country's welfare first, should agree to postpone the general election, thereby saying some £S0,(100 and avoiding one of the risks inseparable from the doubtful experiments and dangerous presence of one of the three wheels, if at any general election it became the first wheel. Tn conclusion. Sir. let me express the eari'"st hope that Reform and United will pull '■ogether. not only for a few months, but far the next two or three years. What reasonable grounds can there be for doing anything else?—l am. etc..
NO GENERAL ELECTION, PLEASE. Wellington, March 14.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 150, 21 March 1931, Page 9
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350Political Parties Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 150, 21 March 1931, Page 9
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