“DEMOCRACY IS OUR SYSTEM”
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IMPORTANT • lliilterl P.mh* AhwhuiMohl NEW PLYMOUTH. 16th April. “Democracy is our system. It is what we have evolved to suit ourselves and the administration of justice is important and essential to democracy,” said the Attorney-General. Mr Mason, in acknowledging references to the importance of his work at a civic reception in New Plymouth on Saturday during his first official visit to the province. “It may not be important in Fascist countries,” said Mr Mason, “but it is to a democracy.” In the state of the world to-day it was important that that should be realised, he added. With so many ideologies, so much questioning and so much fear apparently, it was important to realise the firm foundation on which the British system of Government was based. He was not saying a word of blame about other nations which had not been able to do the job as well as the British or had evolved on different lines. That was their misfortune.
Justice was an essential feature of the system under which Britons used their faculties and ability to the best advantage for the development of liberty and self-expression.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 April 1939, Page 4
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