CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 November 1924, Page 10

CORRESPONDENCE.

POST-SESSIONAL ADDRESS

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Mr. Gawith is hardly fair in persistently asking Mr. Corrigan to deliver an address so soon after the session. Give our valued member breathing time. Everyone who has followed political eveuts' must realise what a strenuous ses.sion he has had. Asking for an address so soon after the close of the session looks to me very like spurring on a jaded horse. Surely the crossing over so often from the Liberal benches to vote in the Massey lobby must have been exertion enough without the added exertion of having to explain the crossing over. Mr. Gawith is too pertinacious altogether. In any case, why should a member be responsible outside the House for what he does inside? I take it the object of such an address would be to ask our member to explain bis omissions and commissions during the past two sessions. For instance, what has he done'to perpetuate the One Big Union which he was so eloquent about at the last election? , What steps has he taken to secure State aid for denominational schools which he promised at last election ? Of course, no one takes such proposals seriously; but there again, Mr. Editor, you remember the words of the old Roman writer; “Vulgus vult decipi; decipiatur” (“The people like being deceived; let them be deceived”). Let Mr. Corrigan come forward with these same proposals at next election, and I ask anyone to deny that he would receive the support of the same classes to whom the pleasant deception appealed at the last election. It can’t be denied. It mav be, a s Mr. Gawith says in his first letter, that the Liberals are a fast-decaying party—-the results of the Home elections certainly justify the prophet-h's being made in New Zealand-about, the Liberals here ; but though a Liberal becomes as rare as the moa in the rest of New Zealand, let our Liberal candidate in. this district put forward proposals such a s Mr. Corrigan’s at the last election, and I venture to'say that good old Taranaki will be the very last to see the Liberal nag go down. Why will Mr. Gawith ask’ such difficult questions and put forward such impossible proposals?—l am, etc., P.' G’DEA.