GENERAL ELECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1931, Page 6

GENERAL ELECTION

QUESTION OF POSTPONEMENT DISCUSSED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) STRATFORD, Aug. 24. Discusing the possible postponement of the General Election, Mr W. J. Poison, M.P., said that if the Committee set up adopted a national plan which all the parties accepted, and the Government agreed to put into operation, lie could not see how the parties could put up more than a sham tight on the hustings. It would look as if the only programme possible to place before the electors would be that adopted by the National Comiiiittee, and presumably that would be. the only programme acceptable to the country. Mr Poison admitted the possibility of new conditions arising which would make an election desirable. The Labour \l>a]'ty had already stated that it would not agree to any delaying of the e fiction, and possibly it would later disclose reasons to justify its attitude. I bis step, taken in time, might have a tremendous effect upon future developments.

Mr Poison said the scheme now adopted had been advocated by banking and commercial circles for some time past. Presumably it had received much attention from the Government therefore Mr Coates’s crystallisation of the idea predominant in the minds of so many would Ibe welcomed as the first step in a nearer approach bv the various Parties to a common plan for the examination of the country’s difficulties.