NO DISSOLUTION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1447, 23 May 1912, Page 6

NO DISSOLUTION.

BUT CHANGE OP'GOVERNMENT. That there will bo no dissolution of Parliament this session is the view taken by Mr. F. M. 13. Fisher, M.P., at present in Auckland, but he anticipates a change of Government. ITe told a reporter that, as far as tho southern members could judge, there seemed to bo an assured majority against tho present. Administration. "But after the experience in the short, session of tho modem politician's capacity to alter his views from hour to hour and from minute to minute," ho said, "it is quite unsafe to rely upon a vote until you actually have the mau in the lobby. However, whatever tho result of the first division might be, it was practically inevitable that the present Administration must. fail. In tho first place, tho Ministers themselves were almost as much divided upon questions of policy as was tho party behind them. Ou the question of a possible dissolution Mr. Fisher said he regarded such an event as quite improbable. Tho tactical advantage rested entirely with the Opposition; for beforo the Governor would sanction a dissolution he must bo assured that tho House had exhausted its opportunities to select a stable Ministry. That certainly could not bo said until after tho defeat of the Mackenzie Ministry and the subsequent defeat of a Massey Ministry. "Ho far as my knowledge goes," added Mr. Fisher, "there are very fow members of the- House who are desirous of seeing a dissolution. There are many who fool that this is their first and last Parliament, and they are anxious that it should last as long as possible. "As far an legislation is concerned, itis not likely that whichever party survives tho session will bo able to accomplish very much," concluded Mr. Fisher.