PARTY STRIFE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 8

PARTY STRIFE

(To the Editor.) Sir, —i read in the paper a report of speeches delivered at a Women's Reform League gathering at Hastings yesterday, when the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, .1. Nash, M.P. tor Palmerston North, and H. M. Campbell, M.P. for Hawkes Bay, spoke on the question of political fusion to 300 women. In view of the very serious financial positiou the Dominion is in, it seems a very great pity that the politicians cannot see their way to cease party strife, and place their country before party. Mr. Campbell is reported to have said: "We want to pull down overhead costs, to cut. taxation, and to make it possible for everyone to live in a reasonable degree of comfort. What chance of those things is there if we fuse with a party that is constantly piling up the cost of Government." Mr. Nash, M.P., who spoke at this meeting yesterday, takes the Government to task for discharging men from the Railways and the Postal Department— possibly a small attempt by the Government in power to retrench. From these two speeches you will notice that Mr. Campbell blames the Government for extravagance in expenditure, whilst Mr. Nash blames it for endeavouring to cut down expenditure. Owing to the economic and financial position of the Dominion to-day, there has never been such a time in the history of the country as the present, when the services of a Government strong enough to do what is right in the interests of all parties concerned is called for. The only way this can be brought about is by a party truce, and the formation of a National Government, similar to that formed by the Reform Party during the late war. This is not a time for bickering on the part of any of the political parties in this country, but a time to face the position with dseds, and not words. The sooner the politicians consider their country first, and act accordingly, the better it will be for the Dominion from all points o£ view.—l am, etc., HUBERT L. NATHAN. 11th December.