THE UNITED PARTY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20966, 4 March 1930, Page 10

THE UNITED PARTY.

CHIEF ORGANISER’S POSITION. TURBULENT NATURE OF DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, March 3. The turbulent nature of the domestic affairs of the United Party is indicated by a further report that the Dominion organiser (Mr O. Holier) has severed his connection with the organisation. This report Mr Moller will neither affirm nor deny. It is understood on good authority that the conference of parliamentary representatives and organisation nominees of the United Party, which met at Wellington recently, altered the scheme of organisation approved by the Dominion Executive to a smaller and more economical scheme. The nature of this scheme and its objects are still matters of closest secrecy, but at the moment it i? apparent that all organising work for the Government is at a standstill.

“ I have nothing to say,”' said Mr Moller, now chief executive officer of the organisation, when approached and asked if he could give any information as to the position of the organisation since the resignation of the general secretary. Further conferences between the organi sation and Cabinet are expected, and it is reported that until the basis of a new scheme of organisation is laid there will be no Dominion Conference of the United Party, an event for which there has been constant request. One report states that the party is afraid to hold a full-dress conference of the organisation which was the creation of Mr A. E. Davy, late chairman of the executive of the party, anticipating that Mr Davy’s rqcent utterances will meet with embarrassing support. Consequently, the conference has been postponed until such time aas the Davy machine has been overhauled and altered. The silence of a large number of electorate executives may provide the basis of this belief.

Added piquancy is given to the situation by 'the authentic report that Mr G. C. Black, member for Motueka, was a fourth man to leave the conference in the afternoon, and that he did not return fqr the evening session.