PARLIAMENT AND THE
PRESS
(To the Editor.) Sir;—Mr Barnard complains that the jTvffi of T,N?- v Zealand is attempting to belittle Par lament-in the eyes of the people. Perhaps he does not realise that, if this is the case, it is a work .of supererogation The "man in the street" has long ago lost respect he may have originally had for Parliaments. For this only members themselves are to blame The tone of Parliamentary debate has fallen to a.lamentably low plane. One has only to read the puerile interjections and piti-' iul "tv quoques" exchanged to form an accurate opinion of the mentality o£ the interjectors. Mr. Barnard scents an attempt to prepare the country for a dictatorship. How many of. us would welcome this as the. most hopeful step toward meeting our troubles. Heaven send us a Mussolini, then we should have less tutile hot.,air and unwanted laws and more results.—"l am, etc., TO WHOM HONOUR IS
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 6
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158PARLIAMENT AND THE Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 6
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