COALITION QUESTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13767, 4 June 1908, Page 4

COALITION QUESTION.

MR. FOWLDS IN* OPPOSITION.. "SOCIALISM A PARTY CRY." I.v responding to the tons' of," The Mini* try." proposed by Mr. S. I. Clarke, at th* complimentary social tendered Ms. Baume, M.P., last night, tfao Hon. G. Fowid* referred briefly to the question of a coalition Ministry.

A great deal had biev heard lately, tekl Mr. Fowlds, about coalition, hut he did not think that there was much chance of it coming to pass. There was, no rewor why the present Liberal party should coalesce, with a email party like the presto' Opposition. Some of the members of the Opposition admitted that they would hire a great difficulty in forming a Ministry, even if they came back from the polls with .% majority. The Government party, or the other hand, could easily form t-wc or three Ministries from its ranks.

The Opposition, he added, wore also making a great deal of noise on the question of socialism, but this was only a party cry. There was Utile danger of the present Ministry rushing into any revolutionary movement that would be injurious to the country. I* was inevitable-, of course, that in a large party there should be gome who wished to go farther than the majority, and some even thought that, the majority were going too fast. The- ami of the Government, however, was to n«k*» progress along sound lines.