UNITED POLITICAL PARTY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 8

UNITED POLITICAL PARTY.

• THE HASTINGS BRANCH. MR A. E. DAVY CRITICISED. - . (Pee United Pbess Association.) ' ■HASTINGS, February,2s. ‘ The secretary of the Hastings branch of ■ the United Political Party has sent the following letter to Mr A. E. Davy; “In reply to your circular asking our’ branch for its opinion as to the attitude you have adopted in regard to the United Party, I have been instructed to write as follows:— ‘ The members of this branch are unanimously of opinion that to do 1 , as yon suggest—namely, to set up and establish a body responsible to neither the electors nor Parliament, and thus-to define the policy of the country, is Tammanyism, and not to be thought; of under the Brtish flag. By acting "as you have done, yon have proved your total nnfittedness for the position yon occupied, " We cordially approve of the Dominion Executive severing its connection with yon/ and have every confidence in Sir Joseph Ward and his present Cabinet to administer •successfully the affairs of the country.”'

SECESSION OF MR JENKINS. MR HAWKE REITERATES STATE- - v MENT, ■ (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 25. . “fit is ridiculons for .Mr H. R. Jenkins at this stage, to suggest that his dissatisfaction with the United Party has had nothing whatever to do with Ms noninclusion in the Cabinet,” said Mr R. W. Hawke, M.P. for Kaiapoi, in com: mentihg to-day on the statement made at Auckland by Mr JenMns. Mr Hawke said he was not at liberty to reveal what took place at the caucus, but it-was not too much to say that Mr Jenkins had made, it perfectly dear to the members of the . party that his dissatisfaction was due, in the first instance, to his non-indusion in the Cabinet The trouble came about as a result of the suggestions made at the time when Sir Joseph Ward was forming his Cabinet that Mr Jenkins was to. be included and his subsequent omission when the ministerial team was announced. During last session Mr Jenkins had shown his disappointment in various ways, and he had ceased to be a loyal member of the party; It was quite wrong for Mm to say now that his secession from the party and his determination to do'everything in his power to bring about- a fusion of the Reform and United Parties had nothing to do with that disappointment.