NOT PERSONNEL, BUT POLICY.

NZ Truth, Issue 1018, 30 May 1925, Page 8

NOT PERSONNEL, BUT POLICY.

Portfolios Subsidiary. Coming, from the '-Liberal "Lyttelton Times," the following is important •and interesting: "The principal, question at issue, and the one upon which the success of the negotiations will primarily depend, will be that of a programme of practical proposals for future legislation upon which both parties can agree., The question of allocation of Ministerial portfolios will be, as it ought to be, quite subsidiary to the matter of policy. it should not be impossible m the present^ condition of affairs political to frame: a national platform to which members of both parties could subscribe without any sacrifice of principle, and the opinion, undoubtedly is very widely held that the task ought to be attempted m the interests of the national progress."