FUSION OF PARTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21197, 1 December 1930, Page 10

FUSION OF PARTIES.

QUESTION OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. UNATTAINABLE AT PRESENT TIME. (Pe* United Press Association.) HAMILTON, November 29. Commenting on the question of a fusion of the parliamentary parties, Mr J. A. Young, member for Hamilton, today said that a National Government as suggested by Mr Downie Stewart could be only temporary unless it led to and brought about a change from British constitutional tradition and the appointment of members of the Cabinet by the leader of the party entrusted with the formation of a Government. The system of electing a Cabinet by a ballot of all the of Parliament and each Minister retaining office under certain safeguards, with responsibility direct only to Parliament was an ideal worthy of a small country like New Zealand, but there was little prospect at present of a national Government on the lines suggested by Mr Stewart. The economic positioii of the world to-day, continued Mr Young, was not due to a passing slump but to an effort to recover from war-time inflation. Certain factors were asserting themselves to arrive at real values based on production freed from artificial props and aids. “A National Government—national in reality and not in name—appears to be unattainable in this country at the present time,” he said. There were certain fundamental differences of policy between the United and Reform parties which placed a coalition government a long way off. ■