DEPUTATIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16606, 18 July 1914, Page 12

DEPUTATIONS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir—Your leader on the plague of deputations with which Ministers have been recently worried was most opportune. No person would complain of any section of the community approaching a member of the Cabinet with a legitimate and reasonable request, but, it is absurd that multiplications of these | prejudiced gatherings should attempti to divert the legitimate courso of af- | fairs, and gain some advantage by such! displays. . . I The licensing question and religious | teaching liavo been responsible for these infractions, and, as both matters have been under intense discussion tor some years, no new light is likely to be thrown on them by such means. Everv responsible adult must have formed somo definite opinion as the result of the controversy whicn has taken place on both issues, and all, parties should be content to allow the crisis to come to a head in a constituional way without endeavouring to alter the' circumstances by seoing who can shout the loudest. —I am, etc., •F. ACTOIv. Sumner, July 15.