THERE IS NO FUSION"
MINISTER'S STATEMENT
-.PARTIES RETAIN IDENTITY
«.-. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 13. -■" "Tnere is no fusion," said the Post-master-General (the Hon. A. Hamilton), in a telephone interview this evening, discussing the political situartion and the statement from a committee of the two Government parties which was published this morning. -o When it was suggested to Mr. Hamilton that there was a belief, stimulated t>y the statement that the two parties would go out of existence and that a national party should take their places, he said that apparently confusion had arisen in the minds of some -people over the central organisation. There was no suggestion, he said, of jthe two parties losing their identity, Jjut for the election a central organisation was needed. There had been no -fusion, and indeed there had been no inter-party caucus to discuss the subject. The Reform Party was agreeing "to co-operate between the two parties IJor the election. A national committee would organise the electorate in :the interests of the two parties, which c would continue with their separate identity as they had done since the "last General Election.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 10
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188THERE IS NO FUSION" Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 10
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