REFORM ELECTORS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 29 October 1925, Page 6

REFORM ELECTORS

(To the Editor.)

Sir. —While admiring your honest but fruitless ;iiid futile efforts to get Mr Almoi'e li. << nii- down oil bis vote catching l’eu< i\ Mr At tin ire s claim to. a vote given to him, being ;i vote for both -Mr Coates :iii*l Air l-'i rbes has bei'u thoroughly exploded ;md scattered to 'he viiids. Hint bis assurance that it fusion entiles be would certainly support tbe fusioned party is tbe weakest point- be lias yet made, for catching votes is so- patent wlien looked at Ironi the angle of bis attitude towards Labour that it leaves him no other choice. But as will be seen "fusion ’ is not an issue in this election campaign ns shown by I ’rime .Minister Coates’ clarion call to bis supporters and bis straight nut declaration that they who do no! vole for him and Reform candidates arc* against- him. What clearer clarion call can be given to the nation than this historic pronouncement. and it surely indicts the local brane!] of the Reform Party as the most weak-kneed branch to lie found anywhere in this Dominion. Y< ur correspondent "Progress in his letter in last. Friday’s .Mail hit the nail right on the In-ad in calling electors of .Nelson’s attention to the importance ol the railway issue in ibis election, and the absolute need for Nelson to send a pledged supporter of Mr Coates if Nelson is to have any chance or hope of gaining ('mancipation from its present isolation and lack - of iron road communication

v.ilh iln- other parts of tin’s island. For iiin!<-i' :i Forbes 1 Yemicrship ;iikl ;i luke\\;irni supporter of Xelson-M esl Coast till way like Mr At mure is. as our represi'iiiat ivc we could hid goodbye to even our past .'.low rate of construction and soon have the chagrin of seeing railway (instruction plant, and men transferred to the Cast Coast railway gap. .All our member has done it; to act its a middleman between the local bodies and the .Ministers or departments concerned. The lie all and end all of his polities is Mini of smiling labour. On the other hand !iie eheinrs hate in Mr Oilberl a man with a practical and great tinlerest in nne of the chief industries in the elect orate. and who knows his business from A to and from experience knows the vital need for Mm cheap, (prick, direct, t ommuuica 1 ion to Mm markets of the west. east, and southern parts of the island for Nelson's many products, and especially fruit, and Nelson could expect Mr Oilberl le. he full of zeal, such as would meet with abundant success as leader and pusher on of Mm NelsonWest Coast railway to a more speedy completion. A vole tor (tilhert then will he Mm best insurance against the "letting in of r..diour." A vote for <!ilhert will hi- a vote for stable Oovorn-

111; 1 11 1 ;i ll' I pro'-treSS Under .Mr ( utiles. A { vote foi- Gilbert will be ;i vote for orrat-j ei‘ progress for Nelson. anil especially j ior its more speedy emancipation from i the bear! bronkino isolation of the last half century that inis mocked and stilled ali itn efforts to develop. I am, etc.,' A NK'.SbW KI.KriOH. i