PROPOSED COALITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10654, 8 June 1912, Page 4

PROPOSED COALITION.

The "Poverty 'Day Herald," dealing with the. proposal of the "Waiirarnpa Age," which 'has been favourably criticiwd throughout it he DomuuioTi, that there sluniM be a. fusion of the modorate sections cf the* it wo great pa.rt--1 ies in the N : ew Zealand Parliament, 'say.;':— "The essential differences be'twecn the two parties 'represented by I'.tho Hon. T. Mackenbie, en the one hand, and Mr iM assay, on the ether, are about a.s tangible as the differences between Tweedledum ami Tweedlodee. Their policies' are .professedly the same, and both are aiming to govern the country with honesty of purpose '/itnd good progressive business-like •method. Men. could be chosen from both sides 'whose sterling qualities •would command the support ef a strong party in Parliament, and with l little give and take we have no doubt a strong and stable Government could be formed, capable of forming a legislative programme thoroughly in agreement with the mind of the great body of the electors. No solid argument, can: be found for the perpetuation' of the. present party divisions. What is wanted is a strong moderate party, which, whilst truly Liberal and progressive, will not proceed to extremes, but will carry on. ' the Government with business acumen."