ELECTIONS
"The best-devised machinery of financial control will be of little avail if the will to control be absent. The root cause of our financial difficulties since the war is that the machinery has been largely nullified in its operation. "It has secured the utmost regularity in Government accounting and high standards of administration and organisation, but as regards major items of policy—where the real expense of government lies—the machinery of control has again and again been pu out of action before it has had any chance of functioning. " The electoral programme of each successive party in power, particularly where it was formerly in opposition, has usually been prepared with more regard to attracting electoral support than to a careful balancing of national interests. " A solution has to be found if democracy is not to suffer shipwreck on the hard rock of finance."—Prom the Report of the Economy Committee.
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3354, 29 September 1931, Page 6
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149ELECTIONS Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3354, 29 September 1931, Page 6
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