The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1931. POLITICAL POSITION

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1931. POLITICAL POSITION

It has become interesting again, oven though Parpann nt -is in recess But t!u i final session of tile present House takes pkicc next month and on business being resumed there mar follow a. quick appeal to the country. So that instead ol the general elections taking place at the end of the year they may happen even three months earlier. This interprotfit on may reasonably he placed upon the replies given by Premier Forbes when questioned by newspaper men upon the rejection of the fusion proposals by Mr Coates and his -Reformers. An official statement on the rejection may be expected from Ale Forbes, but in the meantime h. hints inch-cate that lie will no longei depend up'-u the support of the Reformers when parliament re-n.ssem-bles. Tt is evident that the Government w»li place its pol ey measures before The House* and if Messrs Coates and Holland unite to defeat •op Government, then Mr Forbes and lv«: colleagues will appeal to th# eountiy for a mandate to entry on. Tt is n daring challenge, but George I* or be s h,a.'-’ shown 11«* d not Inch « ourage.