MYSTERIOUS LEAGUE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18147, 9 August 1924, Page 15

MYSTERIOUS LEAGUE.

_♦ SECOND CIRCULAR TO PARLIAMENT. (SPECIAL TO "THI PR*SS."j WELLINGTON, August 8. ■ The mysterious New Zealand League has put into circulation ariotEer typewritten circular, following up the one published come time ago that was so strongly condemned by the Prime Minister. ' The fact that the circular bears no address, or name and has no imprint, leads to the conclusion that sinister influences are at work in the hope of setting the people against the Reform Party and causing disruption in the Party itself, of which, however, there is not the least likelihood. Circular No. 2 of the League points out that Mr Massey denied the League's account of its interview with him, but suggests, that if he recalls his outburst of temper when the proposal for a strong united party, under the Hon. J. G. Coates's leadership, was put to him he can be forgiven for hi 6 lamentable lack of memory. The circular states: — > "The. League will.now recall to Mr Massey's memory some details of his attempt, when at Home, to add newvoters, to the Reform list. He instructed.his officers that all immigrants were to ;be informed' that it was through .the Reform Government that they received their passages, and that if it was defeated "at the polls their friends and relatives would pot be -allowed to follow them, as the Opposition parties were against immigration. _He further instructed' them ' that any immigrant who was uncertain of the district he wanted to go. to was. to be sent to one of a number of electorates he 'recommended, and it was a (strange .coincidence that, each of these electorates was one where Reform"won, or lost by a small majprity." ._ The League concludes its second appeal to Parliament with a declaration "that it disagrees with Mr Massey's mi'suse of political power, but that it believes that "with .Mr Coates as •Prime Minister, and a stronc: amalgamated Government behind . him, such thintrs will cease to be, and tho powers of the great monopolistic interests, •which own Mr Massey, will bo broken bevond recall." Tliosfv whp receive tho circular arc assured that no member of the League lias been, .or will be, a candidate for Parliament, .-

"A Bogus Organisation." The Prime Minister, referring to the matter, said: When- a man becomes Prime Minister he is liable to lie attacked,' and ho" has to put up with it whether the attack is fair or'not. The preset attack iswinonymous, and I believe it comes from a bogus organisation. 1 (Hear, hear.) - "T also' know," added the Prime Minister, "that when a public man is attacked by shooting him from behind a fence, or stabbing him in: the back, it will not commend itself to tho people' of this country. (Hear, hear.) With air parties, whatever have been my sins, I- shall, when I go out, leave behind me a rficord of which the. friends who stood behind me will not be ashamed." (Applause.)