POLITICAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2307, 6 March 1930, Page 4

POLITICAL

SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS PREDICTED. RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF PRIME MINISTER. During the past few days persistent rumours have been current to the effect that the political situation is very critical, and that sensational developments arc expected to take place within the next few days.' The Waikato Times’ Wellington correspondent declares that increasing uneasiness is being felt at the 'United Party’s policy and administration of the government of the Dominion, and especially has there been great unrest with, the Hon. G. W. Forbes’ administration of the Lands Department. It is considered that.if instead of buying fresh land for settlement, Crown Lands had been opened up and the unemployed set to work clearing, loading and forming farming areas there, the unemployment problem would practically have automatically solved itself. Prime Minister’s Position. The* correspondent adds: ‘‘Many members of the United Party are recognising the disintegrating drift that is taking place, and it is strongly rumoured from reliable sources that the necessary steps will soon be taken to ensure the resignation of the Prime Minister, Sir-Joseph Ward.” Independent Party. The. Independent, reinforced lately by the secession of Messrs J. S. Fletcher and H. R. Jenkins from the United Party, hold a very strong hand in political circles, and there is every possibility of a new party evolving which would include among others the best men in New r Zealand politics to-dav--the Hon. E. A. Ransom, present Minister of Public Works; the Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata, present Minister of Native Affairs; and Messrs C. A. Wilkinson, W. J. Poison, H. M. Rushworth, and Adam Hamilton.