LABOUR v. LABOUR.

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 85, 7 October 1920, Page 7

LABOUR v. LABOUR.

There is no apparent bond of sympathy between Independent Labour and "official" Labour in the House of Representatives. Yesterday, for instance, Mr. E. Kellett (Dunedin North), a man of few words, and with the gift of direct speech, was criticising a member of the Government Party, Mr.\E. Newman, for speaking contrary to the recommendation of a Select Committee of which he was himself a member. Mr. Witty was intei-jecting at the time, and Mr. Kellett stopped and asked who had the floor of the House? "Oh, the big man from Dunedin North," said Mr. M'Combs, with evident relish. "Aye," flashed back Mr. Kellett, "but not the little man from Lyttelton." (Laughter.) Mr. M'Combe waited hie opportunity, and when the opening came he defended Mr. Newman, and compared his value as a member of the Defence Committee with that of Mr. Kellett. This drew one „of Mr. Kellett's colleagues, Mr. W. 'A. Veitch, who said that when men came to be judged by the things done, rather than by the things opposed, there would be a considerable percentage to the credit of Mr. Kellett as compared with Mr. M'Combs. '" .