LANG MUST FAIL IN ABOLITION AIM

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17758, 30 January 1926, Page 1

LANG MUST FAIL IN ABOLITION AIM

LIBERAL POLITICIAN VISITS CHRISTCHURCH.

MUNICIPAL CHAMBER BEATS ALL AUSTRALIA.

Mr W. Stace Lloyd, senior organising secretary of the National Party in New South Wales, speaks optimistically of the party's position and prospects. These were mentioned to-day by Mr Lloyd, who is bringing to a close his first visit to this city, where he has spent an interesting week. His party was formed during the war by a coalesence of the moderates of the old Liberal Party with the moderates of the Labour Party, he said. It had a solid majority in the Commonwealth House, and its prospects of retailing the majority were so good, as far as New South Wales was concerned at ;3t, that if an appeal were made fb.j ,e electors the present Labour .would be defeated. The National Pa^; ?f 's general secretary, Mr Parkhill, was c‘ f man of indomitable perseverance and of great organising ability. utco Speaking of Mr Lltijgfs determination to try to abolish tfie Upper House in New South Wales, .Mr Lloyd said that the National Party strongly opposed that course, and he was convinced that the party would be victorious if an appeal on the question were made to the constituents.

As to Federal politics, the appeal to the electors in November had resulted in a splendid victory for constitutional law,. in the fight against the extreme section of the Labour Party. Throughout the whole Commonwealth, not a single Labour man was returned to the Senate. Interest at present was centred in a Bill introduced into the House now in session by Mr J. G. Latham, Attorney-General, to deal with the regulation of industrial matters, in order to bring things into line with the decision of the High Court. Mr Lloyd belongs to the Old Brigade of Australia’s Liberals. He has been in public life in the Commonwealth States for fifty-one years, and he has been senior organiser of the Liberal and National Assoeiation in New South Wales for twenty-five years. He studied this Dominion's politics, with which he was to some extent associated as early as the “ eighties,” when, as Mayor of Wigan, he presided over a meeting addressed by Sir George Grey, when that old Liberal statesman was speaking of the “ unborn millions ” and was inspiring the Liberal policy that made New Zealand famous. Mr Lloyd describes the Dunedin Exhibition as “ surprising and most creditable.” The gardens, the buildings, and the open spaces in Christchurch have charmed him beyond measure, and he says that there is no municipal chamber in Australia like the one in Manchester Street,