QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18345, 10 March 1923, Page 9

QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

ANTI-LABOUR FUSION. UNITED PARTY LEADERS. A. and N.Z. BRISBANE. March 9 Mr. C. Tavlor, Leader of the National Party, has been appointed Lender of the United Party. Mr. Green, of the Country Party, has been appointed deputy-leader. The imminence of a general election which will determine whether Queensland if to be condemned to a third term of Labour rule, gives special importance to the Queensland political unity convention, which was held at the end of January at Rockhampton, and resulted in the creation .of the Queensland United Party (Nationalist and Country Party), says a correspondent of the Sydnev Forum. The convention was an undeniable and dramatic success. It was attended by 133 delegates from 69 of the 72 State electorates. An official emissary from the intransigeant wing of the Country Party, presented the case for the continued separation of the two anti-Socialist parties and advanced reasons why amalgamation or a new party should be rejected for a "working arrangement." But the temper of the convention was against him, and, in due course, the Queensland United Party was unanimously created, and committees to deal with the absorption of existing organisations and the continuation of the work betrun at Rockhampton, were appointed. Much will depend upon the final attitude of the financially-crippled and disorganised wing of the old Country Party, 'ed by Mr. Vowles. If the "open door"' flung so very wide by the convention promoters, inducer the Vowles party of 15 to compromise with the United Party or join it as a well-defined wing, the elections will be fought without fri"- * •'on. Already the United Party has 20 Parliamentarians—ll Nationalists and 9 Country Party menand must displace the Vowles party as the official Opposition during the final session of the oneChamber Queensland Parliament.