POLITICAL ISSUES

Northern Advocate, 23 June 1925, Page 8

POLITICAL ISSUES

SESSION OPENS ON THURSDAY. LAST BEFORE ELECTION. (Special to "Northern Advocate.") WELLINGTON,. This Day. The fourth session of the twenty-first Parliament of New Zealand opens on Thursday Members of Parliament will be gathering in the city from today onward. Preparations are well forward nt Parliament House, where the staff bas been busy for some time past.

Opinion "is growing now that the session will not be as short as was at first, anticipated, but there is scarcely a chance of it being a long one. Tliis will be the last session before the elec* tion. While there never is a desire to : end a session soon enough to precipitate an election campaign in the winter or early spring, there is never any wish to keep the business, going so long that those who are here attending to the country's affairs are at a disadvantage compared with their opponents who, not being members of the ilouse, are free to stump the electorates. PARTY MERGER. Fusion is a live topic in the city end every one is awaiting definite news Of the itport of the committees which met week. Though no information is available officially it is understood that the Reformers stood their ground on all or practically all points. It is believed the Liberals gave way on several points which wore believed to be of importance to them and that one of these was proportional representation. Another thing which seems to have been recognised is the futility of a coalition before the election. HON. W. D. STEWART. Letters received here by today's mail from New York state that the Hon. W. D. Stewart was still (on May 24) concentrating on the Burbank treatment, which he will be able to continue in New Zealand. Mr Stewart was to have presented the flag from the Wellington Bovp' Institute to the boys of a similar institute in New York at a banquet, in the Hotel Commodore, but in his enforced absence Miss Stewart had been asked to makv? the presentation. franklin SIGNAL. "Pnkekohe feelr," sftid the Hon R. F BolliiVd, who returned from the district "that with the fibres registered in the recent has given New Zealand a signal ior the general election. The : wonderfu feeling which the death of its stalwart member, Mr Massey, caused is everywhere evident. The traditions for the welfare of the country which Mr Massey set are held sacred bv c whole of the people of the Franklin eWorfite, and they *et comfort from the fact that New Zealandors throughout the Dominion recognise the worth of those traditions." ■