“VIEW WITH HALF SHUT EYE”

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 8

“VIEW WITH HALF SHUT EYE”

THE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY INDICTMENT OF POLITICIANS. (By Wire —Special to News.) Auckland/ Last Night. Caustic criticism of the policy of members of Parliament of viewing with what he ci'lU “a half shut eye” the welfare of the country as a whole and. noting with a wide open eye the effect of their speeches and actions on t. eir partii lar electorates was made by Mr. J. Fletcher, speaking at a luncheon of the Auckland Creditmen’s Club. “The effect on. the electorate and not the effect on the country,” he said, “is the keynote of bur ‘ political activity. Our finances are . based on it,"our public services are based on it, and our unemployment policy is based on , it, and our local body administration is becoming tainted, with it.” The electors ought, he continued, to insist on a policy that fitted the object to the available money, not to make money available for the object. The first thing to do was to place before Parliament annually a financial statement showing not merely the revenue and expenditure, - but the income and assets and liabilities of the country.