OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935 SESSION AND ELECTION

Opunake Times, 25 October 1935, Page 2

OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935 SESSION AND ELECTION

The legislative proposals re’iitly mentioned by the Prime

mister as constituting the work

for the remaining of the session ■should not occupy much time. Apart from a few items there appears to be little of a controversial nature, and in Wellington it is confidently expected that the session will come to an end during (he following week. The dissolution of Parliament will mark the close of four very strenuous years. The legislative record has laen both long and important. Minis ter,s ami members have had to deal with problems of tiie most involved nature, and the Statute Book contains the measures by "I• i*• ii they have endeavoured to

c( unprecedented conditions

I'hey will have to give an account of their stewardship to the electors, and reasonable time mm( be allowed for (he consideration not only of what has been •huie but also of what i( is proposed to do. The elections have an unsettling effect on the business activity of the country, and there is much to be said in favour ol a short and sharp earn paign. The two parties opposing they Government have announced their programmes, but the Government cannot outline its plans for (he future until it has dealt with (he matters in hand. The conditions governing (he elections will differ from those obtain

ing in 1931, and for that reason alone an early dissolution of Parliament, with all party programmes before the electorates, would enable the people to give them the attention that they demand. The we fare of the Dominion has precedence of all party issues, and to that end it is essentia! to have (he considered opinion of the community expressed at the ballot box. The thing desired is a clear-cut, definite decision in order that instability and uncertainty in political control may not be added ’to the many problems that have yet to be faced.