IMMEDIATE SESSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27386, 11 May 1950, Page 6

IMMEDIATE SESSION

Demand Of Labour Party CONFERENCE RESOLUTION PA AUCKLAND, May 10. A resolution seeking the immediate calling together of Parliament to discuss the increase in the cost of living resulting from the cutting of State subsidies was passed at the Labour Party Conference, stated a spokesman. Mr A. McLagan, M.P., the delegate of the Christchurch South branch of the party, was the mover, and the wording of the resolution was “that 528 delegates, on behalf of more than 500,000 electors who supported Labour at the general election, request that Parliament be immediately called together to discuss the grave situation created by the abolition of subsidies on the people’s essentials of life and the heavy increase in the people’s cost of living caused by the abolition of these subsidies.- We call attention to Mr Holland’s election-time denial' that his party would abolish these subsidies, and we request that the people’s representatives be called together to hear and to discuss any reasons which can be advanced by the National Government for this gross breach of Nationalist assurances to electors during the general election.”