LABOUR'S CENSURE MOTION

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLX, Issue 14852, 25 September 1941, Page 6

LABOUR'S CENSURE MOTION

SECOND EDITION

DEFEATED THIS MORNING INDEPENDENTS VOTE AGAINST IT. NO ROYAL COMMISSION. (Received 11.45 a. in.). United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. CANBERRA, September 24. Labour’s censure motion against the Government for the manner in which it used a secret fund to combat subversive activities was defeated in the House at 3.13 a.m. this morning by 32 votes to 31. Both independents, Messrs Cole and Wilson, voted with the Government. After Parliament had adjourned Air Fadden said he would not appoint a Royal Commission on the payments from the fund.

“I emphatically repudiate secret fund allegations in their entirety,’’ said Air Nelson in a statement. “A very long intensive vendetta has been carried out in the Labour movement. against mo for many years, and I am demanding in conjunction with my colleagues in immediate Royal Commission for a Parliamentary inquiry to have this matter thoroughly investigated and it is my intention to fight with everything I possess to vindicate my honour. I want to say in regard to alleged payments, that if any such money was paid, it was never received by myself in any shape or form.”