LABOUR PARTY AND WORK OF PARLIAMENT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 267, 5 August 1920, Page 5

LABOUR PARTY AND WORK OF PARLIAMENT

Sir,—lt was Burke, I believe, who made / the well-known remark 'about the small insects making the big noise in the field. I do not know to whom Burke was referring when lie wrote this, but if lie had had mode it yesterday when speaking of our Parliament one could scarcely have mistaken tho reference. Thie noise or windiness seems to lie the leading characteristic of the present Labour Party. They have only ono view of all matters: that of "Wo of the Labour Party." and a very narrow, short-sighted, and bigoted view it is; but they seem never tired of reiterating these well-known idens, when, by so doing, they can impede tho work of tho Government. Take, for instance, Mr. Holland's motion about Ireland. No thinking man could ever hope or pretend that such a motion could ever do anything 'but embarrass' the Imperial Government, and lower the prestige of. New Zealand. Yet we find Mr. Holland, and his party still further wasting timo by demanding a division upon this Speaker's action in squashing his useless motion, At the present juncture the Government has a great deal of urgent work on hand, and I think that all rijrhtminded persons will agree that tho Prime Minister, in endeavouring to facilitate the passage of some of theso moaanrea should bn free from tho w-astc-of-timo tactics of o party wSosd ; influence for good 13 infinitesimal.—l am, etc., BYSTANDER.