P.P.A. AND POLITICS.

Evening Star, Issue 18253, 18 April 1923, Page 4

P.P.A. AND POLITICS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Wo all, no doubt, are well “fed up” with the various letters appearing in our local papers concerning the P.P.A., and I am one of the many that smile when people become distressed over this “ body of nobles.” Religion, of course, is the last thing intruded into politics by any docent mind; but whether people are swaved bv religions bodies or not, we shall just nave to go on thinking. At the time of the General Elections m December I was a resident of a well-known 'North Island town, in which four candidates were endeavoring to have M.P. added to their name. Each was a strict Protestant, yet the P.P.A. at this town—or soma portion of tho P.P.A.—issued a pamphlet advising all Protestants to vote tor Mr So-and-so (I received one), 'this, of course, probably .lost_ Mr So-and-so more votes than it gave him, and no one was more annoyed over tho pamphlet than the gentleman in question (attached to the Reform ticket). Anyway, the good city has now the pleasure of a Labor member. This is just one case of a number; so give tho P.P.A. enough rope and look on. When it lias the Catholics behind tho scenes, I wonder what it will find to do. Speaking to a friend of mine concerning tho P.P.A, a few weeks ago, ho said that if they were all put on an island where ammunition is plentiful, he could go back in five years’ time, plough the place over, and plant spuds. He was a Catholic, of course, and if his opinion is taken as general Catholics lose no sleep over the P.P.A.

I have attended many P.P.A. meetings all over New Zealand, for I usually had a friend who could obtain a. “ complimentary ” for me. I considered the P.P.A. quite a good association up to » certain point; but it has long since reached that point, and should have been scrapped. That is, I think, the opinion of all broadthinking Protestants.—l am, etc.. Heather. April 17.