SACRIFICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1941, Page 8

SACRIFICES.

IN WAR EFFORT.

LABOUR CONFERENCE. j (0.c.) wkllington. this day. In report ing, on behalf of the Parliamentary Labour party to the Faster conference of the part v. the Prime Minister, the lit. Hun. 1\ Fraser. drew attention to the seri«nj>n»v> of the war situation and sai<l one thinir was paramount—we mn.-t ha\c unity in the nat ion. Ho pleaded with delegates to treat matters from a national standpoint and assured them that should the people he called upon to make sacrifices and torso hard-fought privileges, these would be restored when tne war was won.

Tho report <>f tin* Parliamentary Labour party, which reviewed the war and economic situations ami the work in I'arliaiuciit. wa- endorsed.

Both Mr. I raMM' and the < Jovei niiieiit were invordcd votes of confidence.

Mr. .1. Roberts was re-elected president. defeating Dr. P. (;. McMillan l.\ 42 \otes. The election of other ollicci> is now proceeding by ballot.

Ihe conference is making puiuri'»s .-lowly and was adjourned at 1 p.lll. to enable committees to consider remits and report back c-o that deh-j ;tc> might participate in a social evening to the ['rime Minister, as this would "be the last occasion on which they would be assembled before Mr. Eraser left on his visit to (ireat Britain.