RAGLAN BY-ELECTION

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 September 1927, Page 5

RAGLAN BY-ELECTION

ISSUES IN THE FIGHT. MR. COATES SUMS UP. LABOUR, v. GOVERNMENT. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) HAMILTON. Sent. 27. “The .real fight is- between the Labou.r-Sioei.aKst ' candidate and the Govern liioiit oiiiKlklaito. The Jiaibour Party i« not asking you to show confid on eo in .it, but to s?ivo vote of no* confidence 'in the Government. One of •m.r number has fallen, and we .ask you to close up the rangs again. We are entitled to that and I ask for it.’ That iLs 'the view of the Prime Minister the lit. Hon. J. 'G. Coates, on the issues in the by-erection in Raglan, and he made that statement the keynote of hi s. speeches . Mir. Coates concluded a busy day speech-making by addressing 600 people at Xgaruawahia 'last, evening. A fire of 'interjections at the ea.rly stake seemed to indicate that the meeting would develop some lively passages but the remarks were mainly good humoured. Mr. Coates received an attentive bearing. The Prime Minister said that Labour had tossed overboard the usehoikl policy and now wanted men to dispose of land only to the Crown. Labour's solution of the farmers’ difficulty would not stand five minutes examination and .its financial policy was barren. Labour condemed overseas borrowing and urged scientific organisations of wealth within New Zealand to earr out these projects, but surely it wa. sound business, to borrow money overteas tor projects which, paid their ov,way, :and’ the burden of which t-a” no >n the but on the nseiis the facilities. To borrow £7,000,000 oi .JtJ,OOO,OOO within the country work prevent the .spending of that money or other works., “We are paying our wa\ and reducing heavy debt imposed on us by the war,” said Mr. Coates.’ New Zealand’s policy is a sound oik. and a isiafe one. La adopting the Lu.be it policy you are taking ia shot i.i i • dark,” concluded Mr. Coates. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried' by acclamation, an amendment of no confidence being lost.