UNITED MEMBER MAKES PLEA TO PARTIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18803, 4 July 1929, Page 3

UNITED MEMBER MAKES PLEA TO PARTIES.

WANTS CO-OPERATION FOR GOOD OF COUNTRY, (Special to the “ Star,”) WELLINGTON, July 4. A plea for the co-operation of all parties in the House to pass legislation that would promote the interests of the country was voiced by Mr G. C. Munns (Roskill) in seconding the motion in the Address-in-Reply debate last night. “Here,” said Mr Munns, “is a House almost equally divided in numbers. It seems to me that no party can remain in power without the help of one or other of the parties.” Mr W. E. Parry (Auckland Central) : You can if you do the right thing. Mr F. Langstone (Waimarino): Watch your step and you are right. (Reform laughter.) Mr Munns: We are not particularly anxious to stop here if you are anxious to try us out. We want co-operation. There are questions facing this country that are not going to be settled by quarrelling and squabbling across the floor of the House. It seems to me that if we do not want another election we will have to ge' together and find a solution of some of these problems. If we are true to our destiny and the people who put us here, and we are not self-seekers, we will get together for the good of the country. He w r as satisfied that members on the United side of the House possessed an earnest desire to work in with any other party for the good of the Dominion. A burst of Reform laughter while Mr Munns was making this latter observation caused him to say: Yes, some of you would go out if you went back to the country. The United Party, continued Mr Munns, believed in the legislation which it was proposing, and it was going to carry it out in its entirety as far as lay within its power. He was quite satisfied that every section of the House would look at the matter from the point he had stated, and would co-operate for the good of the country. Mr R. Semple (Wellington Central) : You deliver the goods. Mr Munns: This is too good a country to be wrecked by party politics. He thought that there should be a sincere wish not to squabble about petty things, but to get on with the big things and make New Zealand “God’s Own Country,” as Mr Seddon had called it.