“SINISTER DOCUMENT”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 339, 26 April 1928, Page 1

“SINISTER DOCUMENT”

P.P.A.’S LETTER MR. J. A. LEE’S COMMENT “A secret document of a sinister nature, couched in intimidating terms,” is the description which Mr. John A. Lee, M.P. for Auckland East, applied last evening to the letter with which the Protestant Political Association recently circularised the Reform members of the House of Representatives. The letter indicated, Mr. Lee said, at Newmarket, that disciplinary action would be taken if the Reform members did not conform to the wishes of the P.P.A. Reform was in a state of dissolution; but getting rid of Reform was not sufficient to solve the country’s problems. What the country had to do was to get something better in Reform’s place. To replace a Liberal by a United Party follower, or an independent by someone who stood for the same policy, was not progress. What the country wanted was policies, not a plague of fresh labels. Mr. Lee believed that Labour’s policy was the best solution of the present chaos. Mr. Lee dealt with company taxation, problems of unemployment, immigration and finance. The working community had been having such a parlous time that withdrawals had exceeded Post Office Savings deposits for the past three years—years of promised prosperity, he said.