PARTY BLOCKS
LABOUR’S SOLIDARITY DEFINITE PRINCIPLES LAID DOWN (THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter.) 1 WELLINGTON, Friday. ! A policy point involving labour’s attitude toward the block party vote was argued on the floor of the House this evening, when the Hop. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, interjected during a speech of Mr. H. E. Holland on tariff divisions. Mr. Holland said that next year an alteration would be required in the present Bill. Mr. McLeod: Are all your members of that opinion. Mr. Holland: Labour voted solidly on these divisions. So far as I know I do not know of one case where The Hon. G. J. Anderson: Did any member leave the chamber? Mr. Holland: That is a most unfair suggestion to make. Everyone knows that the member for Wellington Central is away ill. 1 venture to say that a great many Government members voted in opposition to the Government, and some might have; gone away to avoid voting, but whenever a matter is made a party one, Labour is never afraid to face it. Mr. H. L. Tapley, Dunedin North: Whether it is right or wrong? Mr. Holland: We are always prepared to say where we are on party questions. We have laid down definite principles and our attitude on this Bill is unchannengeable, and we are prepared to legislate upon the principles we have advocated.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 176, 15 October 1927, Page 10
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