TRIUMPHANT LABOUR.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2646, 15 May 1923, Page 4

TRIUMPHANT LABOUR.

Naturally the leaders of the Labour Party throughout New Zealand are greatly elated by the signal success of their fellows at the Queensland general election. "The result," a prominent member declares, "is significant of what is going on in all educated communities. Labour is making its way in politics in all British countries, but more particularly in those where it has had an opportunity to •prove its administrative and, legisla-

tivc ability and to show its moderation." Emphasis is laid on the party's claim to moderation, so far as it means abstinence from the excesses which have been attributed to it by "its opponents, but it is .admitted by the Authority quoted that the New Zealand Labour Party has not been quite so frank as the Queensland Party has been in regard to policy and intentions. By this omission it has laid itself open to the reproach of being a sectional rather than a national organisation and so has estranged many people in all walks of life who might be within its ranks. This, of course, is a plausible presentation of the Labour ideal—perhaps a. little more perilous than Mr Henry Holland's or Mr Peter Eraser's crude picture and one to be accepted as strictly nonofficial.