FUSION.

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18346, 4 June 1931, Page 9

FUSION.

(To the Editor). i Sir, —Supporters of the Reform I Party are well satisfied with them- I selves. They think that the Ilauraki by-election has shown that they can lay on their oars, and that when the general election comes round the success at Ilauraki will be repeated throughout the Dominion, and they will have naught to do but ascend the Treasury Benches. They are hugging to themselves a delusive hope. Ilauraki no more reflects the opinion of the Dominion as a whole than does the most extreme Labour constituency, though I firmly believe that when the numbers go up . in November It will be found that the Labour Party has strengthened its hold in the majority of the Reform strongholds. The return of a Labour contingent strong enough to take charge of the Treasury is, perhaps, highly improbable, but there is a very strong chance that in the new Parliament Labour will be the strongest party. What then will Reform do? It has spurned the overtures of the United Leader in tho belief that it will be able to play a lone hand; but if, as is more than probable, that faith is not'honoured, will Mr Coates continue in his determination to scratch only in his own yard and crow from his own hillock?—l am, etc., ( T.T.T. Cambridge, June 2, 1931.