LABOUR PARTY CAUCUS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1944, Page 3

LABOUR PARTY CAUCUS

VARIOUS SUBJECTS DISCUSSED. WAR EFFORT SUPPORTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day, Miscellaneous subjects were discussed by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party at their caucus in Wellington yesterday. These included stabilisation, price control and the rationing system, including the proposed rationing of meat. The two-day caucus ended in the late afternoon, and in an interview last evening the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said the caucus, which was the first he had attended since the General Election, was an excellent one. There had, he added, never been a better spirit among Labour members, nor greater enthusiasm for their principles and cause. Mr Fraser said that the question of implementing the three years’ programme the Labour Party had placed before the electors in September and which had been endorsed by the country had occupied the greater part of the two days of the caucus meeting. Other administrative questions were given close attention. The war effort in its various phases was also discussed, and the strongest determination to carry it on and to support the cause of the United Nations to the limit of New Zealand’s resources was unanimously expressed. On the question of rationing the opinion of caucus was definite that New Zealanders should share the commodities they possessed fairly with their kith and kin in Great Britain, and that no sacrifice was too great to help those upon whom had been thrown the burden of defending and upholding world freedom to a greater extent than any other British country. ;