UNFETTERED ELECTIONS.

Grey River Argus, 12 July 1945, Page 6

UNFETTERED ELECTIONS.

(To the Editor,) Sir.—Now that the elections are over in Britain, except for all service votes which have still to come in from overseas, I suppose most wage-work-ers hope for a Labour Government to be returned after this Tory dictatorship, which has lasted for ten long years. At times one wondered if there was ever going to be an election again. All the colonies, including South Africa, have had Commonwealth and Dominion elections besides their separate state elections. America and Russia have also had their’s, but not Britain. Just fancy Churchill and his Tory Party asking Poland to have an election, but to see that it is fair and unfettered. You would think, after taking control over the masses for ten years, they would be the last to talk to an Allied country, on how to run their- elections. I can say this quite freely about Poland; but when their election day does come along in the very near future, no Tory Party will go into power in that country, and the London ex-Polish Cabinet, etc., which has cost the taxpayer in Britain over one hundred million pounds in cash,-—supported up to the last by the Churchillian Tory Party—can go where they want to go; they will never be wanted back in Poland. And just a word about American elections: do not let us forget the American Negroes are not recognised at most polling booths on election day in the great U.S.A. Only a little over a decade ago. if the Negro showed his face at the polling place the fascist gang, then called the infamous Klu Klux Klan, gave him a bullet, or else he was hanged at the nearest pole, while the white elector, in most cases, treated it as a joke. And now, as a final word, may: the Labour Party win, and let us hope the people who won the war keep Churchill and his gang out for ever. I am, etc., E. J. B. DESTRUCTION OF NATIVE BIRDS (To the Editor). Sir—ln my letter dealing with the slaughter of native birds in the Jackson Bay—Haast district, I note that you made a deletion or substitution, which would give the impression that visitors were responsible, whereas, although the majority of Public Works employees are blameless; it is necessary to point out that there are many men employed on the Jackson Bay-Haast Road construction who live in the Public Works camps, but whose names do not appeal’ on the Public Works pay roll. Some of these fen continue to destroy native birds, and unless some control is enforced upon the existing arsenal of small arms and the importation 'of ammunition into the district. the swift extinction of many species of native birds will follow as certain as night follows day. I am etc., “DOWN IN THE FOREST”