CAUCUS ENDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 110, 12 May 1939, Page 15

CAUCUS ENDS.

DISCUSSIONS ON DEFENCE.

MR. SAVAGE TO SPEAK.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Thursday,

Further consideration was given the question of defence to-day at the caucus of members of the Parliamentary Labour party, which concluded this afternoon after a meeting extending over two days. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. j! Savage, in an interview thie evening, said the discussions on defence had occupied the greater part of Wednesday and practically all of to-day.

The discussions, said Mr. Savage, had been highly interesting. What the members of the caucus had been mainly concerned with was the land defence forces. They were enthusiastic about the Government's activities to speed up and strengthen, the land forces. All agreed that it was desirable that he should speak on the subject of defence as soon as possible, leaving the details to wait until the Government had received the report of Major-General P. J. Maekesy on the land forces. Certainly no harm could be done, but quite a lot of good, from broadcasts giving a general outline of the defence policy of the Government.