PREMIER’S TRIUMPH

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 287, 7 November 1925, Page 9

PREMIER’S TRIUMPH

ENGLISH CONGRATULATIONS. CRAZY THEORIES REJECTED. (Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 5. Tlie Times, in a leader on tho New Zealand elections, says: “Mr Coates may now give his whole attention to tlie development of his policy without tlie embarrassment of nursing a doubtful majority. Tlie result is certainly encouraging to those watching tho recent progress of New Zealand affairs. Mr Bruce is undoubtedly entitled to take heart from the result of the New Zealand poll, although it must lie remembered that New Zealanders are naturally infinitely more conservative than Australians and that tlie rural vote, which is essentially anti-Socialist, is proportionately much higher in New Zealand and its full weight strongly organised. It would therefore lie unwise to attacli too much significance to tlie New Zealand elections as a pointer to the result of tlie Commonwealth poll.” Tlie Daily Telegraph says: “Mr Coates has achieved a triumph which may have far-reaching effects in other parts of tho Empire. The first nativeborn Prime Minister to hold office, lie lias abated nothing of his devotion to tlie Imperial ideal which Mr Massey so consistently supported, while lie foreshadowed a domestic policy which recognised New Zealand was a nation with a bright future. The elections indicate once more tlie sound common sense of the people of this great Dominion, who have decisively rejected tlie crazy theories of Socialism. Tlie verdict of tlie poll shows conclusively that New Zealanders have faith in tlie future of their Dominion under a firm and stable Government.” —-Times.