NEW ZEALAND LABOUR PARTY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 250, 10 July 1918, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND LABOUR PARTY

a I- * £ ANNUAL CONFERENCE 8 The annual conference of \ the New 11 Zealand Labour Parly was continued ia ' the Socialists' Hall, Manners Street, " yesterday, Mr. A. Walker, M.1., pre- ' siding. . , 5 It was decided tuat representation fit ® the annual conferences sliouhi be vonfined to Labour Eeprese-italion Conii" initteeß and affiliated* bodies (where no !i L.R.C. exists); and, further, that it , should be upon the following'basis:-- ' 250 to 1000 members, 1 delegate; 1000 to "000, 2 delegates; 11000 lo 1000 members, .1 delegates; over 1000 members, 4 delegates. For the pun-pose of securing tlio minimum of representation a number of small branches may be grouped. The following remit from Auckland r was adopted:—"The Labour Represents* n lion Committee shall be tho local S° ve ™" If ing body, subject lo the veio of thn - National Executive, in which case it !. shall have the right of anpeal to i. annual conference. It snail bo tna v duty of the L.Ii.C. to control all organn isiu'g work coming witlun /Us juaisd i<• tion. the nomination and selection ot all ir candidates for election to public bodies, if It shall bo the duty of he L.KX y (within its own jurisdiction) lo decide e as to wl ich electorate or public bodies f shall bo contested in tho interest o , Labour, and to take full cl.nrgo of h. d nominations and selections of all candi dales for such positions.