DENIAL OF SPLIT
LABOUR PARTY AFFAIRS “RIDICULOUS” SAYS MR LEE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WEiL'LINGTON. Wednesday A report published in an Australian paper last week stated that a serious split in the party threatens to weaken New Zealand's Labour Government and that the leadership of the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. M. J. Savage, is being challenged from the left wing by Mr J. A. Lee. "Ridiculous,” said Mr Lee. when the report was referred to him to-day. “Any Nationalist who expects a split in the Labour Party will still be expecting three years hence.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20714, 26 January 1939, Page 15
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94DENIAL OF SPLIT Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20714, 26 January 1939, Page 15
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