NOT A PARTY MAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 604, 5 March 1929, Page 15

NOT A PARTY MAN

MR. A. BELL’S POSITION DOMINION’S INTERESTS FIRST (From Our Own Correspondent) j 1 KAITAIA. To-day. ”1 have never been a Party man or a one-eyed politician,” said Mr. Allan Bell at Herekino, in reply to a question regarding his attitude toward the new Government. ITo did nut for a moment believe that all good legislation emanated from any j one man or any one political party. He j would support Sir Joseph Ward’s i Government in any legislation lie considered was in the best Interests of the Dominion and the Northland, irrespective of party interests. Mr. Bell said that he was one of a large number of members, both of the old Government and of the Liberal Party, who strenuously had striven to bring about a fusion of the best elements of both, and this splendid movement was frustrated at the last moment only by uncontrollable influences. There was room in New Zealand for only two parties, the Socialist forces • *nd those opposed to them. Labour was at present the real, though not the officii 1 Opposition, but the forces opposed to Labour were divided without real cause. He would continue to work inside and outside Parliament for the fusion of moderate thought. 1 'This fusion was bound to come and ! j the sooner it did the better for the i future of the Dominion. • ■—