“SMALL COTERIE”
PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT REPLY TO CRITICISM (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 12. “The People’s Movement flatters itself when it says it mobilised public opinion and forced the formation of tlie War Administration,” said Mr. S. G. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, replying to criticism directed against him by the movement. He said that the recent statement represented the opinions of one or two individuals. These people were, among the -People’s Movement representatives who conducted the negotiations with the National Party to join forces with it. A small coterie did not abide by the agreement, and misapnropriated the name of the People’s Movement. Now they talked about unity and sincerity. Their latest statement was full of mischievous inventions. They had even gone to the iength of alleging that one of his colleagues voted in a certain manner, when he was not even present at the meeting. Mr. Toop. who was president of the People’s Movement when it decided to link up with the National Party, had several times disowned those now using the name.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21067, 12 April 1943, Page 2
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