LOGICAL COURSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1940, Page 9

LOGICAL COURSE.

"RESIGN HIS SEAT." PRIME MINISTER'S COMMENT. HAS NOT RECEIVED LETTER. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. This Prime Minister, Hon. Peter Fraser, who was interviewed this afternoon regarding the resignation of the Hon. W. E. Barnard from the Labour party, stated that lie had not yet received Mr. Barnard's letter, although a co]>y of it had been read over to him by a Hawke's Bay editor. To the editor he had put the question whether Mr. Barnard had mentioned in his letter tliat he proposed to follow the logical and honest course of resigning his seat as member for Napier and recontesting it against a Labour Candida to, 'This question." said Mr. Fraser, "was put by me last night, and as 1 have not yet received the letter 1 cannot comment on it in detail. It would ap|H-ar, however, that Mr. Barnard, no doubt inadvertently, omitted any reference to his intention to tender his resignation as member for Napier—to which he was elected as the endorsed candidate of the Labour party—or any reference to the Speakership, for which position he was again nominated by the Government party and to which he was elected on the "motion of the late Prime Minister, Mr. Savage. T have no doubt." concluded Mr. Fraser, "that these omissions will lie rectified at the earliest possible moment, in accordance with ordinary codes of honour."