NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

Hawera Star, Volume L, 1 December 1930, Page 4

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

MR. J. A. YOUNG NOT HOPEFUL. differences OF POLICY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON Nov. 29. Commenting on the question of fusion of Parliamentary -parties Mr. J. A. Young (Reform), M.P., Hamilton, today said that a national Government-, as suggested by Mr. Downie Stewart, could be only temporary unless it led to- and brought -about a change from the British constitutional tradition, and the appointment of members of the Cabinet bv the leader of the party entrusted with the formation of a Government. . The system of electing a Cabinet by ballot of all members of Parliament anti each Minister retaining office under certain safeguards, with responsibility direct only to Parliament, was an ideal worthy of a small country like New Zealand. but there was little prospect at present of a national Government on the lines suggested by Mr. Stewart. The economic position of the world to-day was not due to a passing slump but to an effort to recover from vartime inflation, certain factors asserting themselves to arrive at real values based on production freed from artificial drops and aids. “A national Government in reality an<l not m name, appears to me not attainable in this country at the present time,” lie said. There were certain fundamental differences of policy between the United and Reform parties which placed' a coalition Government a long way off.