QUESTIONS TO CANDIDATES.
There- never was a time in the history of New Zealand when candidates for Parliament wero deluged with questions from sectior.a: intorcsts as they are being deluged to-day. Possibly it is a good thing that this is so, for people will know just where they stand. But if every section of the community is going to pin the candidates down to definite answers to definite questions, there will be little time left for electioneering. Questions have* been asked by the P.P.A., the Farmers' Union, the Returned Soldiers' Association, the Welfare League, and the Educational Institute. They have still to come from the Sports Protection League, the Moderate League, the Citizens' League, the Child Welfare League, the Post Office Association, the Prohibition Party, and a dozen and one other leagues or organisations. It will take a Parliamentarian at least a year after he has been elected to discover just where he stands himself in regard t to'the questions that have been put to him in his campaign. And if he is a party man, and has to vote according to the directions of his leader, where will he be?
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Wairarapa Age, 18 November 1919, Page 4
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