THE POLITICAL CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1387, 13 March 1912, Page 5

THE POLITICAL CRISIS.

LABOUR'S ATTITUDE

WAITING TO SEE WHAT THE "LIBERALS" WILL DO.

Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh, member for Wellington South, stated, on being questioned yesterday, that he had not been invited to attend the. Government caucus on March 21, but that he had received an official intimation that it would bo held. It was understood, Mr. Hindmarsh remarked, that the Labour members-would not take part in tho proceedings in the ordinary way. He assumed that they would take no part in the ballot for tho election of a new Prime Minister. A Labour caucus would bo held simultaneously with the "Liberal" gathering and tho two parties would confer as occasion might arise. Tho four Labour men had determined to vote as a party, but beyond that would act, he thought, as circumstances might direct. They wero simply waiting to seo what the "Liberals would do. As to his-personal attitude Mr. Hindmarsh stated that ho intended to support tho party in power provided that it gave some satisfactory proof, at an early dato after the next assembling of Parliament, that the progrnnimo announced in the' Governor's Speech was not mere waste paper and that an attempt would be made, as far as possible, to carry' it out.