NO-CONFIDENCE MOVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 8

NO-CONFIDENCE MOVE.

LABOUR'S FIVE POINTS.

GOVERNMENT AND DEPRESSION. j. . DEFLATION OP PRICES. ■ (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON; tllis : day. I Notice of his intention to move a motion of no confidence in the Government was given in the House of Representatives this afternoon by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. H. E. Holland.

The grounds of the motion were

1. That the Government had made the financial and industrial depression worse by its policy of deflation arid reducing wages and salaries. 2: That it had failed to- utilise the credit resources. and currency facilities of the State to re-establish prosperity by restoring and increasing the purchasing power of the people. 3. That it had failed hopelessly to grapple effectively with the unemployment situation and had made the living and working conditions of the'unemployed progressively' worse. 4. That it had precipitated arid accentuated a marked and deplorable decline in prices, equities and purchasing power, and even the evil results of deflation were only too evident; "t had failed to I do anything to arrest that decline. : 5. That it had failed to give consideration- to-proposals for dealing with the present financial position as advanced from time to time by the Labour party and others, including the establishment of a central bank, with complete control of banking, currency and credit. LABOUR PARTY CAUCUS. I MAORI M.F-. NOT THERE. CHRISTCHURCH CONGRATULATED. i(By Telesraph-r-Parlinmentary Reporter.) . - , ; - WELLINGTON,, this day. The' Labour party's- want of confidence motion followed? a this-morning, at which all members were accounted for. Early •■. lobby gossip that .the new Maori mern'ber, Mr. E. T. Tirikatane, might be present at the gathering was confounded, and it will now remain for- him to define his- position in the House. It is understood, however, that the new member proposes to work in the closest touch ■with the official Opposition in the HOU6C. I The Labour caucus, according to the lofficial report, passed a resolution congratulating the Christchurch City Council on-its "capable and efficient adminis[tration, especially regarding the main- • itenance of the wage standard-.and working conditions.?' ... -. , Mr. Tirikatene, upon his, swearing in t r this afternoon, was presented-to the . deputy-Speaker by the Labour whips. , MR SPEAKER ABSENT.

/; DEPUTY OCCUPIES CHAIR. (By ;Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) : / WELLINGTON/this day. \ i . Owing to the death of his mother in [Dunedih 'this morning, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sii Charles'- Statham'; did -not take part in the ceremony connected with the opening 'qt Parliament this'iafternoon. "When the House met at 2.30 p.m. the clerk, Mr. I.T» D. H. Hall, " announced that Mr. .Speaker was" unavoidably absent, and the Deputy Speaker, Mr. S. G. Smith, Itook the chair, and conducted the preliminary proceedings. He also preceded the members of the House of Representatives into the Legislative Council Chamber, where his Excellency the Lord Bledisloe, read .the Speech from the Throne. It is possible that Sir Charles Statham will be .absent from the House for some days. DEATH OF MRS. STATHAM. (By Telegraph.^—Special, to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. .■The death occurred to-day of Mrs. C. E. Statham, aged 82,' mother of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon. Sir Chas. Statham.