“TIME TO THINK”

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1934, Page 7

“TIME TO THINK”

MR. COATES’S WESTLAND VISIT [PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] BLENHEIM, May 17. Mr. J. G. Coates, accompanied by Mrs. Coates, Miss Barbara Coates, and a small staff, left Blenheim this morning for Waiho Gorge, where he will have “time to think.” Responding to a welcome in Blenheim, the Minister said, “I left Wellington because I was unable to get time to think. Interviewers, and different versions on this and that, kept coming along/ and made it impossible to get a few hours to oneself to think out important legislation for the coming session. We are going as far as Waiho, for the purpose of having two or three days as quiet as possible, so that one can get down on to paper one’s thoughts clearly.” The Minister also stated that the future could be regarded with greater confidence than, say, two years ago. There was a feeling of confidence abroad. “In spite of the fact that some sections of the community say that what the Minister of Finance is doing is all wrong, one has to remember that when the Government has to pass through a difficult period, you cannot leave it for half a dozen to handle. It must be for one man to take his courage in his hands, fix his mind on an objective that he decides will supply a solution, and march steadily to that objective. If Blondin were crossing a tight rope, it would be no good for everyone to call out advice to lean this way and that way, further forward or further back. If he listened, he would assuredly fall off, and so it is with the Minister of Finance.” The party is proceeding south via Westport.