CONSISTENCY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 6

CONSISTENCY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Mr Munro is a member of the Labour Party, and, according to our system of party politics, he is expected to advertise the advantages of hie party in season and out of season. Similarly, Mr Downie Stewart tells the people that the Reform Party is their friend, and theny again, Mr W. B. Taverner proclaims what the United Party has done and is doing for the country. But whatever the statement made, and whoever the member of Parliament may be who makes it, first and foremost, and all the time, he must be consistent. Mr Munro, speaking in the Queen’s Gardens last week, said that “ In his opinion the Unemployment Board, if it had had any serious intentions, could have had the position well in hand by now. But the board did not directly represent the workers, and, consequently, with only two workers’ representatives, they were getting nowhere.” At the meeting of the City Council two days later Mr Munro said that “ They realised that the Unemployment Board could not do very much for the next three or four months. . . .” How can the two statements be made to run x>arallel? — I am, etc., Onlooker.