LIBERAL CAUCUS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10287, 23 May 1919, Page 4

LIBERAL CAUCUS

UNANIMOUS RESOLVE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION 'TO BE FOUGHT. SEPARATE AND APART FROM REFORM PARTY. Wit'h the approval of the Liberal Leader (the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) a meeting of the Liberal party was held in the old Parliament Buildings yesterday, the Acting-Header (the Hon. W. -D. S. MacDonald) presiding. Mr MacDonald afterwards informed a '‘Times” reporter that the meeting had unanimously resolved — That while loyally abiding by the existing compact between , the two parties, the Liberal party will contest the next general election separate and apart " from the Reform party, with a definite progressive' radical policy. ( The Minister added that ho had just dispatched a telegram to that effect to the Acting-Prime Minister (.Sir James Allen), at present in Dunedin. It is understood that, owing to a pre-viously-arranged meeting of the Public Health Board, the Hon.--G; r W. Russell/ Minister for Public Health, could not attend the caucus, but' all the other Liberal Ministers in Now Zealand were present, and the whole of the Liberal members of Parliament were either present or accounted for.

At a recent meeting of the Reform party, a resolution Was passed urging that the two great parties—-Liberal and Reform —should fight the next general election ns n Coalition party.