NO REPLY FROM REFORM

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1931, Page 9

NO REPLY FROM REFORM

PROPOSED PARTY FUSION CRITICISM BY LABOUR LEADER. “S.O.S. FROM A SINKING SHIP.” I By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. There has been iio further tlevelopmeht bf the proposal to Sink the Reform and United parties and form a National Party; excepting that Mr. G. W. Forbes had received :l large iiuiliber of telegrams, many from representative citizens throughout the Dominion, expressing approval of. the actioii he had taken. In an interview Mr. J. G. Coates said he Was hot yet in a position to make an ahhdUn'ceriibhi. It is. expected the reply will fee available within two days. Mr. Forbes; in an interview, indicated that in makiiig the offer of fusion it was intended that the. arrangement should fie permarieht and that the framing of the future policy should be a matter for the combined new party, which would start with a clean sheet; . “I do not think the sitiiatioh balls for anv comment from ffie/’- said Mr. H. E.. Holland, Leader of thb Labdut Party. “Mr. Forbes’ ihvitatibn hfia riot been extended to the . Labolir Party. It really represents a despairing SOS H’ onl the captain of a sinking ship to atiother 'skipper who is the owner of thb i cargo on board the doomed vbfesel. Mr; Coates trouble will be that any eiidfeaybtif bn hie part to save the United ship fiiid the cargo from total loss, aiidits cteW from political drowning will gravely Endanger his own somewhat leaky yebsfel; to say iiotliirig of the already threatened lives of his reluctant crew.”