“Only Room for Two Parties’

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 8

“Only Room for Two Parties’

LIBERALS’ EFFORTS MR. A. HAMILTON’S SCORN (THE SUNS Part,*, notary WELLINGTON. Tenia, Y ERY ''NIC i« being said of t*, pending meeting of ttw National Party to discuss orono. als which Mr. W. A. Veiteh is Hi pected to place before them r, ’specting the reformation of ttJ Liberal Party. Mr. G. W. Forbes, National Leader says that no caucus has yet been as all the members hare not -rearrived in Wellington. The status of the New Zealand Liberal Party was referred to by A. Hamilton (Wallace), to-uight, in Address-in-Replv speech. His district, he said, had, during the recess., a V |st from the leader of the New Liberi Party, “but,” he added, “it is diffl.-ni to understand what are the moTemta. ! of our old friends.” Mr. Veiteh: Is that all yott do ac | understand ? Mr. Hamilton: I think some of that are having difficulty in distinguishlst what they call the Liberal Patty stidi j Liberal policy. (Laughter.) ''But,” went on Mr. Hamilton, “f they get out of their minds the 4 a of the Liberal Party, and get a Liberi policy they could not get better evi dence than the policy of the preies Government, for no more Liberal i«. islation in history had been passet than In recent years. There is rooil! for only two parties. We have oßljr two lobbies in the House, one sajfc ‘Aye’ and one says ‘No,’ and we ho time to deal with middle parties. Wt have Reform and Labour, and 1 tbinl it would be difficult to divide ospolitical thought into more than neb channels.”