UNITED PARTY

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1928, Page 7

UNITED PARTY

<£♦<> X'KW MIX IST KITS WELCOMED AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, Decmher IG. ‘‘l ca n toll you tllilL 11KJ !■(■ will !1 ) 1 be nnother election for .some time to oma.” Tliis statement was made l>y the lion .1. 1L Donald, Postmaster-Gen-eral. on liis return from Wellington this morning. Tliore was a la roe gathering of United Party supporters at the Auckland Railway Station to wcl:oine home two new ministers, the Hon ,J. R. Donald and the,lion A. .). Stallworthy, Minister ol Health. Cheers •'reeled the two .Ministers as they stepped from the train. “I can tell you that .Mr Stallworth; and I appreciate very much the honour you have done us,” said Mr Denial in reply. “I can tell you that the United Party is going to make wood. U von had been in Wellington and seen the calibre of the men who have been chosen to represent the party you would md worry. The chance in Government has not mine too s::on.”

As (nines were at present, lie said, he could not say too much, hut lie usmred those present that there would not he another election for some time to come. .Everyone in Wellington felt that the United Party would do its very host, tor New Zealand. Despite the fuss which had been made hv Ref.irm newspapers after the l nited Party’s policy had been announced that policy was going to he carried out. They had men in the House who were strong enough to see to that. Tt might not le done right away, hut it .vould he done when the time was ripe. Mr Stallworthy paid a tribute to Sir Joseph Ward. The fact that he was the onlv great statesman in New Zealand had been amply demonstrated by the work which had been accomplished in the House during, the past few days. Sir ,L mil had been working at very great speed, usually for eighteen hours a day. and had surprised even his followers by what he had none. Mr Stallworthv referred to the fact that Sir Joseph’s financial proposals lu,d been put through the House in record time, and it was significant that i,is Finance Mill went through without ■i division. There was not a man in the House who dared to call for a division. “You will all he grateful that the first job of the Government was to apnlv itself to the problem of unemployment.” so id Mr StalUvnrthy. ‘.‘We are doing everything possible to relieve distress in all parts of New Zealand,

and as a result many people will hove a much brighter Christinas. Mr G. (.'. Mmins, member for Roskill. said lie hoped that before long another Auckland member would he given Ministerial rank. Mr Munins, in referring to the happy relations which existed among the members of the United Party, said there had not boon one atom of jealousy over Cabinet appointments. Had one Auckland memIku' been in Wellington at the time Cabinet had been' chosen, Auckland might have had time Ministers instead of two.