DENIAL OF CONFLICT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1939, Page 5

DENIAL OF CONFLICT

AT THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE NO DISPUTES WITH PRIME MINISTER. DECLARATION BY NATIONAL SECRETARY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. “If such reports say anything about a test of strength between Cabinet and caucus, it is absolutely untrue to say that any such thing happened at the conference,” said the national secretary of the New Zdaland Labour Party, Mr Wilson, M.L.C., in an interview last evening, when reports .appearing in some newspapers outside Wellington yesterday were referred to him. These reports stated that the conference on Monday settled overwhelmingly in the Prime Minister’s favour issues resulting from differences of opinion between Cabinet and caucus. Mr Wilson said that right through the conference to date the Prime Minister had received the unanimous endorsement of delegates to the conference. “There are no disputes between Mr Lee and the Prime Minister, or between anybody else and the Prime Minister,” Mr Wilson said. “The conference has been one of the best and most united that has ever been held by the party. "Though differences of .opinion rise from time to time at conferences, nothing has happened at this conference that is in any way unusual. Free and frank discussions on the party policy are the rule at all conferences. Mr Wilson repeated the statement in the presidential address of Mr James Roberts that though there might be differences of opinion at the conference there would be no difference whatever when it came to standing behind Mr Savage and his Government.