CLEAN POLITICS
PARTY FUNDS AUDIT. FARMERS VOTE ON REMIT. [Per Press Association. — Copyright .l WELLINGTON. This Day. This is an attempt to obtain clean politics, or cleaner politics than we have at present.” said Mr A. E. Robinson, when moving at the annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union yesterday an Auckland remit urging that the funds of political parties should be subject to audit by a Supreme Court judge, and that moneys spent by any political organisation should be open for inspection in the same way as money spent by individual candidates. After half an hour’s discussion, during which several delegates expressed the view that the debate was unworthy of the union, and the subject outside its scope, the remit was lost by 26 votes to 22,
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Northern Advocate, 20 July 1935, Page 12
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129CLEAN POLITICS Northern Advocate, 20 July 1935, Page 12
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