SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1933, Page 13

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your issue of Saturday were three items that seem to merit special consideration. One is that in Australia the price of petrol has been reduced. to Is. 9d. and Is. 7d. per gallon, this being apparently due to some action, or proposed action, on the part of the Federal Government. Could not similar action be taken by New Zealand, perhaps by the New Zealand Legion when, as appears probable, they attain power? Another item is that the Returned Soldiers’ Association proposes to form a new political body, of which bodies New Zealand has already a surplus. Would not our ex-service men be wiser to join hands with the New Zealand Legion, whose published aims and objects, if capable of achievement, offer equality of treatment and justice to all sections of the community? A third item states that the deputy-leader of the Labour Party, when speaking at Ponsonby, forecasted a time when local bodies would be a working and administrative part of the national system, with local. parliaments. The New Zealand Legion has already made it clear that such a scheme is one of their proposals, viz.,'“Some form of government in which local matters will be looked after by local government, and only national matters handled by national government.”—l am, etc., TAXPAYER. Inglewood, May 1.