LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 19

LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

Sir, —I do not think many people will agree with Mr. Bloodworth's contention to the effect that the appeal made by the Citizens' Association in the recent local body elections was an appeal to people's fears and not to their intelligence. The association quite rightly drew attention to the fact that the business of one local body was conducted by caucus rule and they appealed to citizens to,end this state of affairs, and to prevent a «imilar method of conducting public business creeping into other local body affaire. The electors rose to the occasion and turned out the majority of the members of the local body conducting its business by caucus rule, and re-elected practically all the members of the board which did not conduct its business by this method. Was not that intelligence? If Mr. Bloodworth's contention were correct it would mean that the majority of people voted from fear. Such is not the case; the majority of electors voted from a sense of civic consciousness and that they exercised their intelligence the result of the elections amply proves. Camacha.