Order-in-Council Rule

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 97, 18 January 1933, Page 11

Order-in-Council Rule

Sir.—Cabinet is now face to face with what has rapidly developed into a Domin-ion-vide condemnation of perpetual Order in-Council rule, and finally the appointment of a Wheat Purchase Board. At the risk of being termed a scaremonger the writer does not hesitate to allege that the legislation mentioned, and so bitterly resented by every breadwinner, is a positive indication that Cabinet, in what would seem indifference, is precipitating a politcai crisis, and unless they are cheeked the difficulties of life will become more intensified, as one and all will be the victims of a political upheaval at a time when even the most skillul manipulaton of resources makes the balancing of either a business or household budget not only extremely difficult, but frequently impossible. The writer is not interested in the ambitions of the Hon. R. Masters in the political life of this Dominion but admits being in a quandary as to the grounds upon which any portfolios is being administered by one who is not numbered among the eighty odd members of Parliament. New Zealanders are not naturally servile, but when requested to support candidates possessing the Coalition tab the majority did so in the interests of the country, and under the belief that a Cabinet would be selected from the elected representatives of the people, and not from an outside source. The writer is not even acquainted with Air. Alasters, who incidentally is much too prone in using the first person in official statements, seemingly overlooking the fact that Cabinet collectively, and the Coalition as a whole, must naturally accept full responsibility for al legislation by Order-in-Council or otherwise. Aluch of the present discontent would not prevail had our political leaders of the Coalition seen fit to reorganise Cabinet and strictly confined Ministerial rank to the elected representatives of the people. The departure from this obligation to electors and their representatives is not in the interests of the public life of this Dominion, and neither would it be in the interests of any one section of the community to precipitate a political crisis, but the fact that must not be ignored that every rope has a breaking strain. —I am, ect., avis. Wellington, January 16.