"NOBODY WANTS HIM"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 54, 26 October 1931, Page 4

"NOBODY WANTS HIM"

MR. POLSGN'S POSITION IN PARLIAMENT. lAbour grows fagetious. WELLINGTON, Saturday. More party exchanges were indul- ' ged in in the House pf Representatives last night, when the Leader of the Opposition (Mr*. H. E. Holiand) was replying to the debate on the no-confi-dence motion. Mr. Holiand referred to the speeeh delivered earlier in the evening by the Independent member for Stratford (Mr. W. J. Polson), and remarked that Mr. Polson had apparently de- : serted the Independent group and had become a supporter of the Government. Mr. C. A. Wilkinson (Independent, Egmont) : "We are well rid of him, too!" (Loud laughter.) A Labour member; "Nobody wants ' him." Mr. Holiand: "I am afraid that the sentiments so forcibly expressed by the member for Egmont will begin to find expression on the Government benches. It may be that in the near future we will find the hon. gentleman trying to rest his weary feet on •these benches." Labour members : "Oh, no. Save us" from that." Mr. Holiand: "It may be that there won't be a very warm wecome for him over here." Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Labour, Avon) : "Where is my wandering boy tonight?" Mr. Holiand : CiUp to the time of the Inter-party Committee the member for Stratford associated himself with the Independent group." Mr. Polson: "That is not so." Mr. Wilkinson: "Yes, and he voted with us, too." (Laughter.) Mr. Holiand went on to refer to the deliberations of the Inter-party Committee and drew attention to the circular issued by the Reform Party criticising the United Party. Mr. A. J. Stallworthy (Government, Eden) : "The hon. gentieman w.ouldr n't believe a Reform circular." (Loud laughter.) r Mr. Holiand : "That is a most extraqrdinary interjection to come from a colleague of Reform members. The ex-Minister surely forgets that a coalition has taken place. If he asks me never to believe a Reform circular, what could be said about him, sitting! as he is on the Government benches with Reform coileagues?" Mr. R. Semple (Labour, Wellington East) : "It's a bobby-dazzler." Rising to a point of order, Mr. Polson said he had never been a member of the Independent Party, although he knew such a party existed.