WHAT MR. LANGSTONE SAID
AUCKLAND, May 27. Reports that he had said at the caucus and Labour Party Conference in Wellington that he would resign from the party if compulsory national service were adopted as the Labour Party's policv were declared today by Mr. F. Langstone, M.P. for Mt. Roskill, to be wrong. Mr. Langstone, who has aceepted nomination as a candidate for the next eleetion, was the only member of.the caucus to oppose the original proposals
of the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser). "What I did say was that with my opinion so diametrieally opposed to the proposal for peacetime conscription I could not honestly to mvself or the party be a candidate for the general eleetion nnder those circumstances. " He would still have remained a member of the party. He added that he had, however, supported the proposal for a referendum. "That will give the decision of the people on this issue," he said, "and that mnst be aceepted."
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 May 1949, Page 3
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