PULPIT -APPEAL

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21480, 23 July 1941, Page 2

PULPIT -APPEAL

PARTY CONFLICT UNITY STILL FAR OFF GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY WELLINGTON, Tuesday Reference was made to the political situation in New Zealand by the Rev. Gladstone Hughes in a pulpit address. Mr Hughes said that lor close on two years the Jess partisan elements In the community had been hoping lor lull national unity, but it secnieu as far oil' as ever. Pariv interests had stood in tiie way. While men of all creeds and parties , were standing shoulder to shoulder—a band of brothers, if ever there was one—- ' against the common foe, it was nothing . less than a national scandal that politicians , should be indulging in the unseemly game of fanning to name the embers of dying party antipathies and or making parly •apital out or quibbling vi-rbal contests. That when the llower of New Zealand’s manhood was facing death on their behair: The Prime Minister was presumably a converted man, for, according to the ••able news, he had blessed the National Government a* Home and had congratulated Mr Churchill on having included in his Government the be*t men or all parties. Let him take strong action on his return, and he would have the support or every right-minded man and woman in New Zealand. IT they really wanted brotherhood, let them have a generous instalment immediately. The initiative was with the Government and its responsibility was grave, concluded Mr Hughes.