FUSION QUESTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 188, 14 July 1925, Page 6

FUSION QUESTION.

CORRESPONDENCE PASSING. A meeting of the Liberal-Labour Party was held last evening. Mr Wilford, on being approached, stated that negotiations between the two party leaders .were still proceeding. A Liberal caucus meeting, he said, would be held during the evening to discuss fusion negotiations, but there would be no announcement made in respect to it. No Reform Party meeting was held yesterday, and none appears to he in immediate prospect. Correspondence on the subject of fusion has, however, been passing between the party leaders during the las: week, and it is reasonable to assume that the meet-, ing ol the Liberal Party last night had before it a proposal of proposes aris ing out of this correspondence. What stage has been reached w ill, of course, only appear when a public announcement is made, and tlm belief seems to be general that such an announcement may now be expected very shortly. Moreover, although the obstacles to an agreement between the parties rema ill in plain sight, the complete failure of the regotisiviojis is not being predicted as confidently as it. was a week or so ago (says the Dominion).