OUTLOOK UNSATISFACTORY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 June 1923, Page 5

OUTLOOK UNSATISFACTORY

FROM FARMERS' POINT OF VIEW. '

r n te (BY TSLEGKAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) i. CHRISTCHURCH. June 7. i Referring to the political situation, i > Mr. \V. W. Mulholland, retiring presi- *• dent of the North Canterbury branch a of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, in his presidential address at the annual provincial conference of the branch to-day, said: "From the fart- mers' point of view it is most unsatise factory. As things stand at present ■ t t n.° P arty has a sufficiently strong posi- . tion to be able to legislate satisfac- ". torily, and we are not likely to obtain 7 anything but compromise itegisJation. a The administration is also likely to £ suffer, and Ministers will be unable to c take up a firm attitude on public questions. There seems to be only two ways by which the present Parliament can become workable, either a fusion of the Liberal and Reform Parties must take place or some of the Liberals must join the Reform Party. There is very little difference in their policies in any case, and while it might wrench their feelings to abandon the old party, I "So not think it would be hard on their consciences. Failing these alternatives, a general election should be held . 'as early as possible and electors asked to cut the knot they have tied."