PARLIAMENT'S OPENING.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 12 June 1912, Page 2

PARLIAMENT'S OPENING.

Members have received notices to the effect that Parliament will nioet for transaction of business ou Thursday, June 27th. It is stated that the Opposition caucus left the arrangement of the no-confidence motion entirely with the Leader, Mr Massev. Possibly the debate, will not be start-, ed until the following Tuesday, as an imprest Supply must go through before that date. Seeing that appropriations expiie on June 30, there can scarcely be a division on the important dmendmeut until the end of the first week's debate, and in any case it will suit the plans of the Government's opponents -to delay the trial of strength, until the arrival of Mr Herries from England on July 9. Mr Wilford's return places the Government in a better position. Had he been in the country last February the Ministerial majority would have been three, but the happenings since the short session bring so many new ele* ments into the positson that one thing only is certain, and that is that the division list on the fateful night of February 27 will not be exactly repeated. It will be remembered that Grey Lynn's Labour representative, Mr Pajne, declared shortly after the Makenzie Cabinet that he would support Mr Massey, but the latest bulletin shows that Mr Payne never intended this to be taken seriously. He has informed his friends that as there is much more to be hoped for from ttie Liberals than from Mr Massey, he will endeavour to keep them in order.