NO COMMON GROUND

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 139, 10 December 1930, Page 13

NO COMMON GROUND

EOR REFORM-UNITED FUSION

UNITED MUST REPENT FIRST

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHKISTCHUROH, This Day. "Tho differences between the parties are so wido that unless a repcutent attitude is shown by the United Party,., on tho lines of altering vital decisions, it is quite impossible) for us on our side of tho Houso to sit in Cabinet with them, for there would bo immediate disagreements," said Mr. D. Jones, M.P. for Mid-Canterbury, speaking at Methvcn on the suggestion of a fusion between the United and Reform Parties. Mr. Jones devoted a considerable portion of his address to the question of fusion. He stated that Mr. Coates stood higher in the opinion of the members of tho Beform Party to-day than ever he did boforo, and tho party Was standing more solid than it ever had. There hnd been fusion for the last two years; surely it was realised that there had been fusion between the United and Labour Parties. Members of the Houso knew that there had been an understanding or an agreement between tho loaders of the United and Labour Parties. "Tho cry to-day is for a saviour," Mr. Jones continued. "The suggestion is that fusion of tho Reform Party and the United Party would result in the combined party being tho saviour of the country. Fusion means a common ground of union, as if melted together. Can anyone suggest that thore is common ground for a union between the Reform Party and tho United Party1? Tho first thing needed in connection with salvation is repentance. There must be repentance on the part lof the United Party, and the forsaking of its spending and borrowing policy, before we can.discuss fusion."