THE FUSION QUESTION

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2898, 18 June 1925, Page 3

THE FUSION QUESTION

TO-DAY’S CONFERENCE. The much-discussed conference cl which Reform and Liberal Labour representatives are to discuss the amalgamation of their parties is to open at the Parliamentary Buildings at 2.3(1 p.m. to-day. Members of the party delegations are to discuss the position and seek a basis of agreement, and subsequently report to meetings of tlieir respective parties on a date or dates yet to be fixed. The opinion is widely belli in political circles that it- will be much easier for the delegations to agree on policy issues than to overcome what one prominent politician described as “the overwhelming difficulty" of inducing people in tiio various electorates to accept and >act upoti any agreement that may be reached. Tile lion. A. D. McLeod, upon whom it has devolved in the absence ui' the Prime Minister to make iinal arrangements for the conference, announced last evening that the Re form Party would be represented by the following members of Parliament: — Mr O. J. Hawken (Egmont), Mr .J. A. Young (Hamilton), Mr T. D. Burnett (Temuka), Mr W. J. Girling (W’airau). The Liberal-Labour representatives will be: — Mr G. W. Forbes (Hurunui), Mr \v. A. Veitch (Wanganui), Mr R. Masters (Stratford), ID' A. J. Murdoch (Marsden).