FUSION AND REFORM.

Auckland Star, 2 January 1931, Page 6

FUSION AND REFORM.

i'our correspondent Charles Lawrin .'nduige<= in the usual platitudes about the solidar fcy and principles of Reform. I wish these Reformers would enumerate a few of the planks in their platform. TRliat will they do lo assist the country out of the present industrial and unemployment depression? What proposal,? have they to put the poor man'on the land and give him a start? What did .they do during the sixteen years they were in office: How many went on the land and how many walked off? What is Reform's railway policy"? Was Reform not responsible for the new railway station "white elephant"? Did not Reform order hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of small arms munitions now proved to be worse than useless? I challenge any Reformer to answer "Yes" or "No/" Would Reform reintroduce the Conscription Act and waste another half a million pounds a year? Reformers may gloat over the present position, but much can happen in eleven months? and even if they fluked' a win they could not hope to last' many weeks. Their wishbone is where their backbone ought to be. E. STEVENSON.