WANT OF CONFIDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 8

WANT OF CONFIDENCE

EAELY MOVE EXPECTED

GOVERNMENT NOT PERTURBED

It is considered certain that the Opposition will take the earliest possible opportunity of testing the feeling of the Hous,e of Representatives on the exchange issue, and the opinion held in Parliamentary circles is that a want-of-confidence motion will be launched by the *Leader of the Opposition (Mr. H. E. Holland) on Thursday.

It is stated that the debate on the motion will be restricted to very few speakers, and it may be found that the statement of Labour's case will be confined to Mr. Holland and one other member of the party, probably Mr. M. J. Savage (Auckland West). Members of the Coalition Party who are opposed to exchange inflation will probably take an opportunity of stating their views. ■ Mr. Stewart no doubt will also make a statement to the House, and the Prime Minister and Mr. Coates may be expected -to defend the Government's action.

Under the forms of the House, it will be necessary for the Prime Minister to grant faodlities for $. no-con-fidence debate. In conversation with a "Post" reporter to-day, Mr. Forbes said it was not his intention to place any obstacles in the way of a debate on the Government's policy. Some speculation has taken place as to the possible result of a division on a no-confidence motion based on the exchange issue, but it is gathered that members of the Government are confident that they will be able to carry the day.