SCHOOLS AND THE ELECTION.
Sir, —J should he glad if you would allow mo to refer to the pernicious habit growing among budding politicians of using public schools for propaganda. In Avondale South the United Party has distributed blotting pads to the scholars through the school, and in New Lynn imitation cigarette cards have been circulated in the interests of the Labour candidate. Surely men standing for Parliament should confine their propaganda to the actual voters, as people of age in this country have sufficient brains to form then own opinion without having to be influenced through their children. ' Plain Voter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20098, 8 November 1928, Page 14
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101SCHOOLS AND THE ELECTION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20098, 8 November 1928, Page 14
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