WHO WILL WIN?

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 27 September 1927, Page 5

WHO WILL WIN?

REFORM OR SOCIALIST

PREMIER AT NGARUAWAHIA. LABOUR’S LAND POLICY. —e—(Per Press Association). Hamilton, September 27. ‘Tliv real tight is between the Labour-Socialist candidate and the Government candidate. The Lab- „ our party is asking you not to show confidence in it. but to give a vote of no-eoniideiice iu the Government. One of our number has fallen aud we (the Government) ask you to close up the ranks again. l\e arc entitled to that, and 1 ask for it.” Ihat is what the Prime Minister has to say on the issues on the byelection in Raglan, and he made that statement the keynote of his speeches. Mr Coates concluded a busy day of speech-making by addressing an audience of 600 at Ngaruawhia last evening. A fire of interjections at an early, stage seemed to indicate that the meeting would develop lively passages but the remarks were mainly good-humoured, and \Mr Coates received an attentive hearing. The Prime Minister said that Labour had tossed overboard the “usehold policy,” and now wanted men to dispose of their land onlv to the Crown. Labour’s solution of the farmer’s difficulty would not stand five minutes' examination, and us financial policy was barren. Labour condemned overseas borrowing and urged the scientific organisation of wealth within New Zealand to carry out these projects. But surely it was sound business to borrow money overseas for projects which paid their own way. and the burden of which fell not on taxpayers but on th' users of tho facilities. To borrow £7,000.OUQ or £8,000,000 within, the country would prevent the spending of that money on other works/ “We are paying our wav and reducing the heavy debt imposed on us by the war.” said Mr Coates. “New Zealand’s credit stands high. Tho Government's policy is a sound one. and a safe one. - In adopting the Labour policy veu are taking a shot in the dark,’’ concluded Mr Coates. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried with acclamation an amendment of no-confidence being lost.

All registered electors of Raginn who are absent from the electorate on polling day. Thursday. September 29. will be entitled to record their votes on making application to an’, postmaster for a voting paper. A persß.i who was on the Raglan roll at the last general election and who has become registered in another district will not, of course, be entitled to vote. Each elector will be reqin■ to declare he i g registered on the Raglan electoral roll and is not /qualified to be enrolled as an elector of any other electoral district He is also required to declare that he is entitled to vote for the electoral til'strict of Raglan. Personal application must +*• made nt anv post office dur. mg md-nary post office hours.