POLITICS AGAIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17353, 19 May 1924, Page 6

POLITICS AGAIN.

The Knight Hudibras got into his first trouble when he tried to put down a bear-baiting, and something like that experience fell to Mr Veitch’s lot at Napier. A meeting, at which Labour opponents had mustered strongly and showed more zeal to obstruct than to learn when the time for questions came, passed a resolution against his party. Mr Wilford has sought gallantly to turn this incident to the good account of his party; but be makes too much of it. He has hailed the hostile motion as a decisive proof—-a proof to all New Zealand—that between the Liberal-Labour Party and Mr Holland's Labour there is no sort of alliance. But if that was not self-evident to the simplest minds before Mr Yeitch's hecklers put their seal on the fact it is to be feared that no proof will ever avail them. The complete separation of Mr Wilford's party from extremist Labour was shown time and again during the last exciting session, when the LiberalLabourite voted against Labour amendments to their leader’s motion of noconfidence rather than be dragged at Mr Holland's chariot wheels.-—“ Star,” Dunedin.