"FDR LABOUR'S SAKE"

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 26 October 1931, Page 7

"FDR LABOUR'S SAKE"

. .' - •~ _ * A / ■'' : -'*'' "fji'Hn'. EARLY ELECTION"! iMfMoUXi

(By, Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)'

'..; ~ .. DUNEDIN, this"day. :', \ ■ '■■' ' •■■" " v . •■- . ■ •'•"' -' : . - . "To hold the general election'in the: moment of stress, for the sake of giving Laboiir.'2B seats, or, at best,-33, as its own predictions have been made/tin -a ; House of 80, might- seem quaint- to .the v .immortals, of to business men,/but it is'. right.in politics, and'certainly the best ' .party polities';" says-'the "Evening Star." "From the- Coalition's viewpoint; .its . .'appeal; will be best made'to tlie country While the'country feels the need'of a. : Coalition Government, and before it has' forgotten it.' The decision against .postponement, which we assume is, pleasing ! Labour. to-day, may' soon be its chief regret,./ '. •- •.' '•- % '.-• .-..,.

"The main difficulty for the Coalition will'heJn persuading the .surplus involved in the 116 candidates already, appointed- by-the separate parties to stand down in the interests of _ unity,, but the appeals made -by both the party 'leaders, joined, with ;the obvious necessity of the times,, should convince most of those superfluous' ones how they can best serve the State." ■'.•• '.; "