ON CARDBOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 93, 19 April 1940, Page 9

ON CARDBOARD.

SICK-BED REPORT.

LATE PRIME MINISTER.

MB. FRASEH'S DISCLOSURE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", Thursday.

It was disclosed by the Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, during his report to this week's meeting of the Wellington Labour Representation Committee, of which he was one of the delegates to the Easter conference of the Labour party, that the original manuscript of Mr. Savage's confidential report to the conference had been written during his illness on two sides of a piece of cardboard.

Photographs of the manuscript had been taken, because it had come to his notice that certain persons were wilfully and maliciously casting doubt on the authenticity of the report, said Mr. Fraeer, who exhibited two photographs at the meeting, at* which there was an attendance of more than 100 delegates. Mr. Fraser reported on the work of the conference, which was so tragically cut short by the death of Mr. Savage, says the official report of the meeting of the Wellington Labour Representation Committee.

Hγ. Fraser dealt especially with the endorsement of the Government's war policy and the adoption of the manifesto on war drafted and recommended bv the joint executives of the New Zealand Labour party and the Federation of Labour, the disciplinary measures adopted by the party, and on the association with the Peace and AntiConscription Council of members of the party.

Decisions Binding. He pointed out that the decisions of the conference in regard to these matters were now binding upon all party affiliations and members. Mr. Fraser also referred to the expulsion of Mr. Lee. He stated that he had voted for the expulsion, which he considered fully justified, particularly in view of the unfair and unwarranted attack which Mr. Lee had made on Mr. Savage The report was adopted and the action nT. he dele f«t«e endorsed unanimously. The decision of the Easter conference regarding the Peace and Anti-Conscrip-tion Council was read. The president, air. J. O. Johnson, said he trusted all members present fully appreciated the position and that no delegate in attendance was a member of that council. «<ti ? fo I ,,owin ? resolution was adopted: inat the national executive be requested to give an interpretation of the recent decision of the annual conference regarding the Peace and Anti-Conscrip-tion Council, and what effect the decision had on Labour party members who were members of the council and who iiad now resigned from it."