POLITICAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 230, 21 June 1915, Page 3

POLITICAL.

■ STATEMENT BY JdHASS£T. a iSOLiD: Mrty’ of forty oke! rutThw Prime Miniator.;told a.; representative obthe New Zealand Times that the Government.,syvwould fsso Parliament' .•with-.-CDiifidcT’cc in the usi|alyvay. 4*tVe . have'tin assured majority, said, Oe-venathough -It Is.not. vja vcryVlarg'o -one. -. The Government party consists of forty-one members,- -who-a-re solid,- unit-ed,-.-and loyal. On the other side there arc: 33 r . .Oppositionists and 6 Labour members who may vote,, the Op.pu , stion.. -.That is the position, and it <s-• titles -the Government to ; fa'ce" the 'fti-' lure,/Without misgivings.” In answer to a question regarding the member for thp Northern „ Maori -District, hfri 'Mosscy * said ' that there -was bibsolufely i ; hO : foundatJori- r; ' for 1 ' the • statements that had been ma,do.;im:., panging the loyalty of Mr. Tau Honare to the Reform Party. "I will say emphatically that there is'noktlve slighted reason for doublingithe loyalty of Mr. Henare, ’'j OL saj’ tbat deliberately. Mr. Henare is a thoroughly honourable man. He .hasp.promised to support the Reform Party and ■he-wiil'-do- v^oi*! - i - — : “-‘' Massey added that the Government had reason for gratification, at the Tact that the three held since the! general election had shown that the Reform Party haif improved its position withgtho electbrsAThe final figures would show that the Liberalmember's majority., had .been iip Tamnarumii. DuneclTn Central had been' won' by,.the povernmeut party and the Bay '6f Islands' spqt hud boon Ji.oid.. ■Tire '-'Govdrnment was v entii3od to .claim that it stood oven befd'cr with/fW.country than if had done in DoeouVbPr. T.”it remhins fi)i- 'the 'tippoSitioil''' fo show, wdiethcr they arc afiixions tb f'drcc’ another general : ,electip,n. upon the- coun : / try,'' said .Mr. Jlassoy. iiycouclusiqji, - LEADER OF THE 01 POSITION 'S VIEWS. - -DISSOLUTION CRY. A j‘' BOGEY ' ’

.y*;K ; - tU" .Wl ;.U X: When seen by a representative- of the New" Zealand r jSir, r Joseph Word said that he (lift not..v>:jsJi to .prolong- thy discussion of the political position. A genor/if election dragged out for over s(y fipidhtiis;'through" ho fault "of The electors, had given most people enough of polities for a»”time, hadeSersyas leaver; ing to spend a ftHV'days ■htth'his family - ' in of the session. in

The facts, of tjie ..position W;er.e* n ei ’* ’fpclly cleap,and co f ukl. place ■Whak interpretation they .pleased upon them for; their own , g.rntifipation. ; For himself, he,.Was accepting}the' decision oL'.tiic el.ef-toro ./quite ;, plulosophically; though, of course, aigood-deal-might be

a-s,v.id about ;-the ' that wore. put in the way of its expression, iir -woH-ptaiu that the electoral Itiws^w.otild' • leave to be"‘matbvially' : kmonefed, tlp’.k-their 'dUmiabdyatupV' 'would*..jfjdv«s -to occupy' the serious arteiii ion ,of .those in authority." ‘ .■;• ■■' He" noticed the Prime Minister hud said it remainded to bo sebii if the Op* position was anxious to force-on arioth*

er general ■ election. He did not prc:tend to understand what this cryptic utterance meant, bat • It Mr. Massey • :ssss 'ft 0 injpjy; ; tha '.it, rested Vlvidtb. . - the' Opposition to, .:>»>: yhcthqr .jthewbe another' goa.or.-U aleetion .tir. not, ho wap. paying too lugH"a"sompJiment to the party «'£■£■" SC’.i'llTK jThe granting qt a dissoluto.n jyas : oue;- ; of the prerogatives of the Crown, re-jv presented in this country by the Gcvornoj;, and His '’Excellency I '' had far ter- - nice an appreciation : -*df the' fitness hf' things, to alloy.' another election to ha } { forced upon the eountry.uLnio til--every' ■ other means of forming a, stable G-ov-ernment had been exhausted. The bogey of another appeal to the constituencies’ had' been held up before the electors* of Ba-^'Of-'lslaiffds’-anS-Tat?-marunui with a very obvious purpose," but no one who reallycunderstood the ;. situation was tho- lenst bit.alarjned. lt , ; was-merely a part of the Government electioneering outfit, and even Mr.. Massey did not attempt to espkiif hoh'“ the appeal would ;comq u abouti' ,"J. am : .SSt going to discuss politic^,'' Sir .Joseph in conclusion, ‘‘‘but I am quite sure the electors, whatever their paTty proclivities may be, redliso k> that ' Opposition ‘is at loastf'ah ! ioyar'ahd, gs anxious as the Government'' is to grw ; ..the--Mother Country; everyi possible ’(ih- ■ since in jho(:present?, crisis/ " and to'- V; strengthen the .bonds q{.'affection and Jh crest that hold Xew Zealand to the Em-v----pire and preserve all that-the—Empire means to jthe British race.’’ , , !f .1 ■■■' *»■— - - ■' - ii-ii-f :i ~3urrrrr—r —yen; a* M-k..