WISH FATHER TO THOUGHT

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1934, Page 4

WISH FATHER TO THOUGHT

reply from prime minister ” 1 i LABOUR SUGGESTION OF ELECTION. SITUATION OF THE GOVERNMENT. DISSATISFACTION IN THE RANKS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. ' Christchurch, Last Night. “The wish is father to that thought,” said the Rt. ' Hon. G. W. Forbes, Prime Minister, commenting on the suggestion of the Leader of the Mr. M. J. Savage, that an early election might happen because the internal position of the Government Mr. Savage’s remarks wer</ made at the Mayor’s welcome to delegates attending the Labour Party conference. “What is troubling the Labour Party is that we have worked so smoothly and harmoniously together ever since the Coalition was formed,” said Mr. Forbes. “There is no foundation for Mr. Savage’s implication' that, trouble inside the Coalition may bring about an 1 early election. The Labour Party cannot understand anyone who puts country before party. We, however, have done that and shall continue to do that while the country is in its present difficult position. “Mr. Savage said at the welcome that a battle at the polls might come at any time. Not many persons knew the internal position, of the Government itself. “We know the difficulties it is facing and we know the futile attempts it is making in these days of depression,” he said.

The whole thing known as the Coalition Government might soon be a thing of the past and his hearers would then be called on to exercise the greatest of all privileges, the right ,to govern. He hoped citizens would give a Labour government the opportunity to show what it could do. 9.

LABOUR VICTORY AT. THE POLLS. CLAIM OF LEADER OF OPPOSITION. Christchurch, Last Night. The. odds against which the Labour Party had to fight during the last session of Parliament were referred to in the report of the Parliamentary Labour Party which was presented to the-annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party by Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P., to-day. The report stated that legislation passed during the session had made it clearer than ever that the only hope of redress for those bearing the brunt of the depression lay in a Labour victory at the polls. It was evident there was a great deal of dissatisfaction in the ranks of the Coalition Party over the Reserve Bank Bill, as there was when the exchange rate was increased, but it was made just as evident that the disgruntled section of the Government, with one or two exceptions, was prepared ,to accept the dictates of the leaders rather than embarrass the Government and lose the party’s future support. During the session Labour fought every measure that was in conflict with Labour principles, but 24 members in a house of 80 could achieve little in effective results. Until the workers of the country realised that the Labour Party was making their fight and was entitled to their support then the position would become progressively worse. They could expect no better conditions from the present Government. ’ '* /