NON-PARTY GOVERNMENT.
MR BRADNEY'S OPINION.
THE USEFUL. UPPER HOUSE.
(Special Correspondent.)
AUCKLAND, Dec. 18.J
"I think it is a pity that there should be any party feeling at all in the government of a country," said Mr J. H. Bradney, the newly elected representative for Auckland West, replying to the toast of "The Government" at the letter-carriers' dinner en Saturday night. Mr Bradney went on to say that his party was the people's party, and that Parliament should legislate for the people as a whole without discrimination. There should not be any.classes in this country, he thought, but legislation should be carried out on practical democratic lines for the benefit of the people.
Replying to the same toast, the Hon. W. Beehan, M.L.C., remarked that it was harder for a man to get into the Upper House than in the Lower House, and those who could not enter the Upper House cried for its abolition. "It would be a national calamity to do away with the Upper House," declared Mr Beehan. "It is astonishing what state measures are in when they reach us, but we have an opportunity to give them calm Consideration, and so the Upper House is necessary."
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Northern Advocate, 18 December 1911, Page 5
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