THE LIBERAL PARTY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 233, 1 October 1912, Page 5

THE LIBERAL PARTY.

AGAIN A .HAPPY FAMILY

SETTLED DOWN TO SOLID WORK.

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CHIiISTCHURCH, Sept. -30

In conversation with ..a Lytteltoa Times reporter, Mr G. W- Russell, M.P., said that the Liberal, party was now settling down to eolid work in Parliament. If the people thought that the party was disgruntled or divided, they should remove the idea ■from-"their minds. Th^ members were working solidly together. recent divisions in the House wer« most satisfactory from the party's^ point of view. In an important division last week the party had 29 against 36 votes for the Government, and six members'' of the ; Opposition; were absent. Internal differences and dissensions had completely ' disappeared. Members realised that the good of the country and the party's ideals called for a solid and united effort.

- As to the future, said Mr Russell, the party'looked forward with confidence to any appeal that might be made to the country sooner or later. There were indications that the Liberal and v Labor sections woiild be ab]e to work together for the common object of ousting a Government which had no majority at the recent election, and which had reached office tnroiigh secession of certain members from ; the- Liberal partyv fori briyate reasons. '-The_' Government* legislation clearly was in the. i nterests of, a class. "Wlien the Liberal party; aßam appealed to the people with a progressive platform they would send it back to power. He believed that the members who had withdrawn from the Liberal Caucus .would be ■absent only temporarily. ,