LONG WAY OFF

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 5

LONG WAY OFF

MR J. A. YOUNG ON FUSION.

HAMILTON, Nov. 28. Commenting on the question of the fusion of Parliamentary Parties, Mr J. A. Young, M.P., of Hamilton, .today said that the National Government, as suggested by the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, could be only temporary, unless it led to and brought about a change from the British constitutional tradition of appointment of members of Cabinet by the Leader of a Party entrusted with the formation of the Government. The system of electing Cabinet by a ballot of all the members of Parliament and each Minister retaining office under .certain safeguards with responsibility direct only to Parliament was an ideal worthy of a small country like New Zealand, but there was little prospect at present of a National Government on the lines suggested iby Mr Stewart. The economic position of the world to-day was not due to a passing, slump, but to the effort to recover from wartime inflation. Certain facto were asserting itheinselves to arrive at Teal values based on production and freed from artificial props and bids.

A National Government, national in reality, and not in name, appeared to him not attainable in this country at the present time, There were certain fundamental differences of policy between the United and the Reform Parties, which I placed a Coalition Government a long wav off.