WHAT IS THE GAME?

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 244, 28 September 1922, Page 2

WHAT IS THE GAME?

(To the Editor). Sir, —Air. Massey has assertedamore than once that if prohibition is carried he will call Parliament together at once. For"what purpose? He must know what idea he has in mind, what proposal Parliament will b© called to consider. Are not the electors entitled to know? I can but regard as ominous the silence of Air. Wilford, Mr. ''Holland and Mr. Isitt. They have evinced no curiosity whatever and from their silence two -considerations emerge. The fact is that on the last occasion when the extremists on both sides laid their heads together, Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward chucked overboard the three-fifths majority on which both had been elected, and combined in support of that infamous proposal fo pay 4| millions in compensation. The second i. 4 that if Mr. Massey has any such scheme in contemplation—and in the light of the past | put nothing past him—it is just the sort of thing hwould resort to as early as possible. A Premier can do what he likes in the first year of a Parliament. Thr?e years later anyone mentioning it would be howled down. Of course no Hawke’s Bay M.P. will endeavour to enlighten his electors, but perhaps some of your readers may be in touch with others not stricken with paralytic dumbness. Bv-the-by. do you remember the “dumb-dogs” of the Seddonian era? Yours, etc., CURIOUS.