MR COATES ON WAIPAWA DEFEAT
“While the result of the Waipawa election is, of course, a disappointment to the Reform Party,” says Mr Coates, “ we recognise that Mr Jull was personally an exceptionally strong candidate, and that the vote he received was mainly of a personal rather than a party nature. The disquieting feature of the election is the revelation that many people have not yet realised how, serious is the position of the producing community to-day, or how urgent is the need for ' the dominion to return to a policy of sound and prudent public finance. It is a striking fact_ that every polling booth serving the primary producers gave a substantial majority to the Reform candidate, but evidently there are many people in the town* who do not even yet realise that the prosperity of the towns is also involved in the difficulties of the farming community.”—Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20610, 9 October 1930, Page 8
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150MR COATES ON WAIPAWA DEFEAT Evening Star, Issue 20610, 9 October 1930, Page 8
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