THE POLITICAL SITUATION
LABOUR PARTY’S ATTITUDE. WELLINGTON, January 18. The following telegrams have been exchanged by Mr H. E. Holland (chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party) and the Prime Minister: Westport, January 18. The Right Hon. the Prime Minister, Wellington.—The Parliamentary Labour Party desires respectfully to enter the strongest possible protest against the delay in calling Parliament together. lhe verdict of December 7 constitutes an emphatic declaration of no confidence in the present. Government, and the Labour Party holds that the Government, as an alternative to resigning, should meet Parliament at the earliest moment, certainly not later than the middle of February.— (Signed) 11. E. Holland. Wellington, January 18, 1923. Mr H. E. Holland, Esq., M.x'., Westport.—Your telegram received. I quite understand the constitutional position, and will act in accordance with it. You are in error in thinking that the verdict of December 7 constituted an emphatic declaration of no-confidence in the Government. On the contrary, it constituted a declaration that the people of New Zealand would on no account tolerate a Government which might be assisted to office by, or in any way placed under an obligation to, the Socialistic Labour Party.— (Signed) W. F. Massey.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3593, 23 January 1923, Page 65
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197THE POLITICAL SITUATION Otago Witness, Issue 3593, 23 January 1923, Page 65
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