NEW ZEALAND POLITICS
"CLEAN AND HONEST"
The claim that politics in New Zealand were as clean as anywhere in the world was made by tho Acting Prime Minister (the Et. Hon. J. G. Coates) during his address at Lyttelton on Tuesday night, states ■*■' The Press."
Mr. Coates referred to a quotation from tho London "Financial Times" of July last which' commended tho steps taken by New Zealand to meet her difficulties.
A voice: What did it cost you to got that in? Mr. Coates: All it cost was straightforward politics.
Auothor voice: Politics cannot be straightforward. Mr. Coatcs: You arc wrong there. It is a great mistake for peoplo to imagino that politics in New Zealand are corrupt. They aro as clean and honest as anywhere in the world. A voice: What about Frascr in the House?
Mr. Coates: He hasn't committed a scandal, has he? (Laughter.) Second voice: What about Dick Seddon and the voucher?
Mr, Coatcs replied that that had been looked into, and as far as he know, Mr. Soddon had come out with his soul as white as snow.
"I can assure you that no- ouo in politics in New Zealand would be connected with anything that could be called shameful," ho went on. "Wo make mistakes in judgment, but as for political influence on questions which have an important bearing on the community, no one can say that of us."
NEW ZEALAND POLITICS
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 10
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