“SWEET FRUITS” OF OFFICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 873, 17 January 1930, Page 1

“SWEET FRUITS” OF OFFICE

Mr. Davy Answers Labour MR. LEE MARTIN’S PLAN QUERIED “'J’O taste tire fruits of office, even though they be seeondI hand, is a sweet thing—-and undoubtedly if the attitude adopted by the Prime. Minister, Sir Jose pit Yard, and a. certain Cabinet coterie is any indication, Mr. Holland is in that position with the United Party today.”

Thus does Mr. A. E. Davy, chairman of the New Zealand United Party, sarcastically allude to the recent statements of the Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. H. E. Holland, and Mr. Lee Martin, Labour M.P. for Raglan, on his attack on the Government. “Small wonder Mr. Holland is perturbed and annoyed at any attack upon the United Government, or ‘domestic dust-up,’ as he terms it, in connection with its affairs,” Mr. Davy adds. “When Mr. Holland says he does not attach very great significance to the Tittle rebellion,’ it is quite obvious that the wish was father to the thought.” Generally speaking, to Mr. Holland’s “attack” upon the Government, Mr. Davy attaches as much importance as he does to the no confidence motion

staged by Mr. Holland last session. “Regarding his personal tilt at, and prophecies concerning, myself, I would remind him of the effect and the results of similar statements made by himself and his party prior to Ihe last election,” Mr. Davy remarked. “As to Mr. Lee Martin, he became an M.P. because of the three-party system. In his attempt to construct a United-Labour Government, Mr. Lee Martin stated that five members of the present Labour Party should be put in the United Cabinet. This is the best that he can do in reconstructing the House. “I would ask him who are the five members of the Labour Party he mentions, and what present members of the United Cabinet would he drop for them? I wonder what Mr. Holland has to say about all this?” Mr. Davy concluded.