MEMBERS' CHOICE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 236, 6 October 1942, Page 4

MEMBERS' CHOICE

BREAK WITH PAft*

COMMENT BY LEADER

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, this ft! "By their decision to remains* War Cabinet. Messrs. Coates Hamilton have chosen to severtw connection with the National This point was made clear Leader of the Opposition Mr&i land, in a statement, this "I have not heard from ®?* Coates or Mr. Hamilton" Holland, 'but from the reports it appears that thevTC decided to continue their ship of the War Cabinet nSS' standing the decision of lastwSff caucus of the Parliamentary iff sition. Only two votes were recorded against the withdraw? our representation in the War i? ministration and War Cabinet the decision was unanimouS* dorsed by the Dominion the party with representattwjS? sent from all over New Zeahfi do not propose entering into jX? cussion on their joint statavH other than to say that by it jh? Coates and Hamilton gjyp approval to the Government's £ ling of the Waika to coal strike. iC agree with the Governments fafe ference with the course of faSS' and they concur in the GovernaSE decision to confiscate the Waft*! coal mines as a sop to imhSS lawlessness. —

They have both been membttt.* the War Cabinet throughout £ period when the Government» peated submission to industrial W lessness has brought about racf£i stoppages, culminating in the rSS costly, and wholly unjusttS Waika o holdup. It would mS that they are content to acqqSZ in this policy, both in the pastel in the future, but the National mE as a whole does not agree witbS attitude. No one imagines ftr'j moment that the resumption of m at Huntly means the end of th* disturbances, which will caqtiat while the Government's weak-tag handling of them continues.

"The time has arrived for a ggy. down that will determine once w for all that our laws will ft observed- and that lawbreakers» not going to be permitted to our war effort, and defy Government with impunity?*