Need real

But the necessity to put some curb on the executive power was still apparent and since 1951 governments have promised to find a way round the problem.

"Nothing whatever has been done," said Mr. Temm. "Legislative machinery now exists to enable any government to become a dictatorship. There is a loaded gun pointed at the head of democracy in New Zealand the trigger of which may be pulled at any time."

Mr. Temm feels that the only solution is to reconstitute an Upper House with similar powers to the previous one but with a membership based on a different system which could make it independent from the party in power.

Wellingtonian Jim Kebble, curate at Newtown, who was the Catholic Chaplain at the 1966 NZUSA Curious Cove Congress.—Photo Jo Evans.