POLITICAL RELATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1943, Page 5

POLITICAL RELATIONS

STATEMENT BY OPPOSITION LEADER. OUTSIDE PRESSURE ON LABOUR PARTY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 29. “It is quite clear that the outside pressure that dominates the Laboui Party has been too strong for Mr Fraser,” said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Holland, when the article by the Prime Minister in the “Standard” was referred to him for comment this afternoon. “On innumerable occasions in the past Mr Fraser has stated his personal opinion that a national government was essential for a full war effort,” Mr Holland continued. “Apparently, however, he-is not in the position to implement those opinions. It is true that on the day before the election he asked the people to support his party. On the next day, however, the majority of the people of New Zealand said by their votes that they opposed the present Government's administration. Therefore Mr Fraser’s statement that he feels that he can claim that the Government’s policy has been endorsed, when more than half of the people have voted against the Government, is just about the strangest reckoning cne can imagine. “Clearly the people have said by their votes that they demand that this Government should refrain from further expansion of the state control, internal marketing and such like measures of nationalisation, but apparently Mr Fraser is quite unable to take that meaning from the electors’ verdict.”