THE REFORM PARTY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 260, 30 July 1929, Page 10

THE REFORM PARTY

reorganisation canard flatly denied IMPLICIT CONFIDENCE IN MR. COATES Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, July 29. Speaking to a “Press” representative last night, Mr. F. Waite, M.P. for Clutha, said there was not a particle of truth in the suggestion that any reorganisation of the Reform Party was contemplated or that he was associated with such a movement. Mr. Coates enjoyed the complete confidence of every member of the party. Moreover, there was no need to change the name of the party, for in three years’ time all those people who pay taxes of any kind would be demanding reform in many directions. “I have attended many party meetings during the past four weeks,” said Mr. Waite, “and I have never heard a whisper of complaint about Mr. Coates. On the contrary, he Is more securely entrenched in the esteem of his fellow-members than at any previous time. When Mr. Coates's opponents stoop to the circulation of rubbish of this kind they must still be a little afraid of the Leader of the Opposition. I for one am proud to serve with and under one of the most able administrators that this country has ever had.” “MORE SOLID THAN EVER” Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, July 29. When approached by a “Dominion" representative to-day, Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., gave an absolute denial to' the rumour that he Intended breaking from the Reform Party and forming a new party along with Mr. Samuel and Mr. Waite. It was the first he had heard about it, he said. He was quite satisfied also that the other two members would not leave the party they held in such high regard.

“In my opinion,” he said, “the Reform Party was never more solid as a body than it is to-day.”