PRIME MINISTER'S TOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19142, 7 October 1925, Page 13

PRIME MINISTER'S TOUR.

SOUTH ISLAND F-IRST. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. J WELLINGTON". Tuesday. The Prime Minister. Hon. J. G. Ooates. will open his campaign with a tour of the South Island, commencing this week. He will leave by to-morrow evening's ferry steamer for Gamaru, where he will address a meeting on Thursday right, and further meetings will be" arranged in various centres throughout the Southern districts. Having completed his programme in the South Mr. Coates will return North and address meetings in several electorates on his way to his own constituency. THE LYTTELTON SEAT. GOVERNMENT CANDIDATE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The Government candidate for Lyttelton, Mr. M. IS. Lyons, opening his campaign at Sumner, declared himself a strong supporter of Mr. Coates' Ministry, though not a blind supporter of Mr. Coates' programme. He declared he favoured Labour receiving just as large a share of the value created as an industry could pay consistent with the adequate reward of the other instruments of production, but said the Labour leaders were throwing away the substance for the shadow, as was evidenced by their failure to give wise advice to the British seamen on strike. He advocated measures to prevent unemployment and welcomed the relief suggested by Mr. Coates for basic wage workers with large families. He urged a cessation of borrowing for unreproductive purposes, a progressive policy for the settlement of land left available and further subdivision of areas suited to intensive farming. He was accorded a vote of thanks.