MR HISLOP IN REPLY

Southland Times, Issue 22749, 27 November 1935, Page 8

MR HISLOP IN REPLY

ALLEGED RUMOURS OF PARTY BREAK. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, November 26. Mr T. C. A. Hislop, Leader of the Democrat Party, in a statement in reply to the Prime Minister with reference to the alleged rumours of a party break between the Reform and United groups of the Nationalist Party and the United alliance with the Democrats, said that he could only think that the “rumour to which Mr Forbes referred was a figment of his imagination. He did not know whether Mr Forbes was just flying a kite or not. He could rest assured that Mr Hislop would not dream of splitting up the Nationalists as together they were like most hybrids and showed the worst traits of both species, thus making their elimination so much the easier. Mr Forbes had said that he “knows this sort of stuff and it is not surprising considering the mean sort of way in which Mr Hislop has been trying to cast aspersions on the Government about the report of the Auditor-Gen-eral ” There was nothing mean about the truth. Not one of Mr Hislops statements had been disproved. He had not been afraid to hit straight from the shoulder and he did not need to invent the silly “rumours which the Prime Minister had so brilliantly “denied.” .