“MOST DISUNITED THING”

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 193, 17 May 1928, Page 9

“MOST DISUNITED THING”

PRIME MINISTER ON NEW POLITICAL PARTY

WITHOUT LEADER OR • POLICY

Dominion Special Service. Paparoa, May 16.

The leaderless and policy less United Party came in for caustic comment from the Prime Minister to-night. “In a few months you will have to decide the Party to which you will give the reigns of Government,” he told his constituents. “There can be only two possible parties in New Zealand—the Reform Party and the Labour Party. A third party can only be a misfit, and all it could do would be to assist the Labour Party into office. I make that statement after full consideration of all the circumstances which would be likely to sway the people of New Zealand. Now we have the United Party—a new party, or, rather, a new name, for it includes Liberals and Nationalists and United. So far they have not elected a leader, nor stated a policy. I understand that after the candidates have been chosen, they are going to hold a conference, and there propound a policy, but now we have men offering themselves without a leader or policy. I suppose it is the most disunited thing ever offered to the country”