THE NAME OF UNITED.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17570, 8 March 1929, Page 5

THE NAME OF UNITED.

BETTER THAN LIBERAL.

MR. J. S. FLETCHER’S OPINION

NO FUSION WITH REFROM.

<By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent. AUCKLAND, March 8.

Speaking yesterday at the farewell to Mr Oscar Moller, who is going to Wellington as the Dominion organiser of the United Political Party, Mr J. S. Fletcher, M.P., said it was a mistake to hold on to the old name of Liberal, and the United Party should absorb the best elements in Labour and Reform ranks.

There could be no thought of fusion on any other principle, and the principles enunciated by the United Party prior to the general election were those to which the party should adhere if it were to attract these men and give the country what was wanted.

“In the high days of Gladstone, Cobden and Bright, the name of Liberalism did stand for something, but we have out-grown it,” declared Mr Fletcher. “Seddon was a LiberalLabour man. He had advanced a stage, and we have gone one better and taken in Reform’s best elements. For that reason we have found the "best name in ‘United.’ ”