THE “BIG STICK”
PARTY SYSTEM ATTACKED LYTTELTON CANDIDATE (Per Preen Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Candour marked an address by Mr. Eu L. Hills, Independent Labor candidate for the Lyttelton by-election, at a Sumner meeting last evening, lie stated that Parliament should be freed from the shackles of party politics. The “big stick” was being weilded by tho party leaders, and if the members of the rank and file did not obey they would lose their positions. “The people of New Zealand,” he said, “are entirely responsible for the mess it is in. If "they had been as intelligent as politicians have ‘kidded’ them they were, the country would not have beeq in the position it is in today.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18180, 30 August 1933, Page 7
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