POLITICAL REFLECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 22203, 4 December 1935, Page 10

POLITICAL REFLECTIONS

MR SAVAGE LOOKS BACK SUSTAINING THE SEDDON TRADITIONS [Special to the ‘ Star.’] WELLINGTON, December 3. Sitting in the room of the Leader of the Opposition, and ready within a few hours to vacate it for the spaciousmess of the more modern Cabinet room, the Prime Minister-elect, Mr Savage, looked around with a reminiscent eye. “ This room,” he remarked, “ was occupied by Seddon, and now I leave it, though we of the Labour Party take up the work which Seddon laid down, and we take it up where he left off. It was from this room that I went out to enunciate the principles which, I am satisfied, he would have been speaking of to-day had he been alive.” Having spent the morning with his parliamentary supporters, Mr Savage spoke,of his reactions when he came into personal touch 1 with the full force of the new Government party. “I saw in front of me a team of men who will have the responsibility of Government in the days' to come, and, from the point of view of loyalty to_ me and to, the principles we enunciate, I feel very satisfied. Look at them from every angle—from the intellectual point of view they will measure up* favourably with any Government which has occupied the Treasury benches. I sincerely believe that. We have youth, wide experience in local body service, and farming experience as well as industrial interests here.. The professions are represented, including the clergy. There is scarcely k service that is not reflected in the new Government party, and the objective of all is to serve. We want to make it possible for the people to serve each other. Our party, as I saw it before ifie this morning, is surely broad-based. There is no other possible foundation for a permanent structure.”