“Choice” Remits For Labour Conference

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1948, Page 4

“Choice” Remits For Labour Conference

It is reported that there; will Jo e! some vety choice offerings when the Ney v Zeakm Labour Party holds its annual confereime in Dunedin at the beginning of May writes “M.D.” in the Evening Post, Welhngt on. Since the last annual conference, held m Wellington® branches and affiliations have been busily engaged in P re P a ™ g a ’| for consideration by the eonfeience to say, ideas beyond the hardy annualis. Re ports declare that they have really excel e themselves on this occasion. i-, o f n rn One suggestion for <discussionis that,, efo e each election, candidates foi Parnamem should be required to submit to a medica amination. While this news is bound to b< | greeted with mixed emotions, the outlook f politicians is not altogether , grim. There is a suggestion that their salaries should be n creased to £2OOO a year. This will probably cause loud cries of approval, in some places, but the enthusiasm will surely be conditioned by another suggestion to revise the pensions plan for me bers of Parliament. . . ... These carping notions simply will occu • Another idea is that new aspirants for r liament should come under an age limit. For the Dunedin conference, it seems tna the Labour Party will turn, lor the n n , from conventionel demands for inquiries i - to the press, and will enter a novel f thought. Reports have it that the cojife - ence will be asked to consider a proposal that the Government should take over all dail> newspapers in New Zealand. There’s nothing like a bold stroke, according to this idea; if there must be a paity press, have it universal and exclusive. Considerable variations .of the same theme occur, however, in suggestions that ,one newspaper in each New Zealand city should, be taken over by the Government, and that newspapers should be forced to provide adequate space to the Government to answer any published material. -