SUDDEN TEST

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 June 1925, Page 6

SUDDEN TEST

NO-CONFIDENCE 51001 ON

LOST BY 36 TO 17

.IJRERALS DO NOT VOTE

(By .Telegraph.—Special to the Star.) v, jß.r.gfii.votA'oN, J une 30. Twenty minutes suinced to; dispose of tlie Labour motion of no-conudence in tne mouse to-nignt, - wiieai the lmpresD Sappy Bill was nitroaueeU, and ivir. Uoaces came our- of his nrst trial worn a 'majority ol ; 19. i>ir. Savage, a Babour member, moved an amendment in the briefest of terms, Mr; Howard seconding in one sentence. “I heard thus ameudnieirt was coming on, ’ remarked Mi - . Wilford, leader of the Opposition, “so I put m> reply into writing. At the present time .the, Opposition Party, led by me, and the uiovernnient are “in negotiation to see if it .is possible that' a working arrangement can be wme tc( between the two parties, by which one party may be evolved. Whether outlet these negotiations will come to # successful co el us ion no one knows./ We are in a stage of negotiation, at pres, ent, • and until these negotiations .are over no one can say whether or not this Government will stand, as part, hers with the party of which .1 have the honour to lead. It is quite impossible for this party to vote Idr the Government on ; a . motion, of ■ ~noconfidence moved by the leader/of the extreme Labour Party, and T propose to take, the course recently taken at Home, of declining either to vote/ for the Government or extreme Labour. ” Members: “You will run away*” (Loud laughter from the ' Labour benches.) - Air. Holland declared that he would not discuss the Liberals’ decision to retreat, hut merely wished 10. make a quotation applicable to the Disraeli was speaking of Sir Robert Pleel when he said : “Something. has risen;.up in this country as fatal; in the - political world, as fatal as it. has been in the. landed world or Ireland. M'e have a great .parliamentary middleman. It is well known what a middleman)as; he .is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other, till having obtained a position to which he is not entitled, lie cries out, ‘Let ns have no party . questions, but a fixity of tenure.’ ” , Mr. Holland, amid the approving laughter of -his supporters, .-'said he would leave it at that. , , Mr. Wilfbrd: “Why,' you will be quoting the late Mr. Massey next?” Mr. Frazer, when the divisions bells started, announced . ironically. , .“All those in the middle walk out.” However, two members of the Opposition remained in their seats, when the Liberals disappeared. They were Mr. Poland*, who .subsequently joined Labour in, the division lobby, ‘and Mr. Atrnore, a- pronounced supporter of fusion, who voted with the Govermentf Tflie result, which was 36 against the amendment and 17 in farour, came before 8 o’clock, so quickly was the test applied. . . . ,