POLITICAL PAMPHLETS.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —.L am one of those fortunate fifteen hundred householders whose lives have been brightened jvithin the last day or so by the receipt of .yhat I at first took to ;be a specimen qopy of the first issue of a' new 'domic paper, but, which on closer examination, proved to toe a reprint from Hansard of a .speech by our worthy member Mr. J. R. Oorrigan. As one who has publicly appealed to our member for an address, I must now thank him for giving u.s at least this much. But why couldn’t Mr Oorrigan have given us this tit-bit of political propaganda from the platform rather than rely oh the printing press and the post office as his channel of comiiniunldation ? There is much to (be said for the personal touch in these matters,-and;- .after all; 'one cannot question a pamphlet. And-isi • it rather bad for a politician, who has ■ described his opponents a>s a “.government of rubber 'stamps and political phonographs,'’ to trot..out the same old phrases we had. already read in the press- and in Hansard.-: However, I must not be too severely critical, lor a good start has been made, and, after all, “half a loaf is better than hone,'’ to quote a .Avell-known Liberal statesman. Might I, however, in conclusion, suggest that Mr. Corrigan-'should issue another pamphlet which,' after dealing With the subsequent history of the Parr charges, might also enlighten ns upon the following points: (1) In what respects the National Party differs from Rleform? • (2) Why Mr. Oorrigan sent a telegram of profuse congratulations to Mr Coates on his selection as Prime Minister, and then inside a month denounced him in the unmeasured terms set put in his speech? (3) Why the Liberals, after adding Labour to their title at the last election, have now discarded the old historic name .for the colorless title of Nationalist?
(4) How much longer the Nationalists think they can keep up the bluff that they are opposed to Reform? —I am, etc., BONEHEAD. Hawera. - • 1
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 September 1925, Page 5
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