GREY BY-ELECTION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 115, 20 May 1918, Page 1

GREY BY-ELECTION.

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•M.R COATES' OIMvNSi HIS CAMPAIGN'' J (United Press Association.) \ ■ ! GREY MOUTH, This Day. j Mr 'J'. It,. Coates de]i\ored his first address in the campaign for the Grey seat (in 's!;itn. vi.iy last at Barrytown. A.L'ter staling that he favouredl the Go- | vernment's win-thc-war efforts and conscription, he urged: that all single ehgibles he sent before mariietf men. He trenchantly criticised the 'Government's honie policy in regard to railways and land. He favoured the 'Government talcing over the \Vellington-lJyttelton> ferry service to terminate the annoyance and expense in the Union Company's steamers failing to connect a,t Lyttelton with the West Coast oxpvexs. ;