THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930. THE IMPERIAL CALL.

Wairarapa Age, 6 August 1930, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930. THE IMPERIAL CALL.

Though ho has moved rather lute in the day, the Prime Minister has now brought up in a thoroughly straightforward fashion the question of making such arrangements as will permit, him to go Home to represent New Zealand at the Imperial Conference. Nothing could be franker than his statement on the subject in the House yesterday, when he was questioned by Mr. Coates. “I would only go,” Mr. Forbes said in part, “on the under standing that while there I remained Prune Minister and that I had an opportunity of coming back to New Zealand as Prime Minister. To do that would require the co-operation of the other two parties” As Mr. Coates and the Prime Minister agreed yesterday, an understanding on at least the principal financial measures of the session is essential' if Mr. Forbes is to go Home in the conditions he indicated.

The problem which thus confronts Parliament and the party leaders obviously is one of considerable difficulty. An arrangement which will .give Mr. Forbes the security of tenure he asks for presumably will be possible, only if the United Government is prepared to amend and modify some, at least, 'of its financial proposals. Certainly discussion cannot proceed from an initial assumption that the Prime Minister must go Home (though that, of course, is desirable) that arrangements must . be . made which will enable him to do so on his own terms. The position no-' doubt calls for a spirit of give and take on the part of all concerned;.. - but some of the proposals! the Government. has . brought down are bound to’be opposed to the last ditch iby the. Opposition, or at all events "by the lieferm Party It should count for a good, .deal tlv>: experienced financial administrators in ( the.,‘.Reform tarty, and a good many other people, are agreed in contending

that the United Government has failed to impose an effective cheek on the growth of expenditure -and- that if it repaired this neglect its burdensome taxation proposals' might, easily be modified very 'Considerably.' Prompt and practical treatment of this question and others will be needed if the arrangement Mr. Forbes desires is to be concluded.