MR. COATES' DECISION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20113, 26 November 1928, Page 10

MR. COATES' DECISION.

VIQP.REQAL APPROVAL,,

GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.

CESSATION IN MEANTIME,

[BY TELEqitAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

WELLINGTON, Sunday

In connection with the statement that Parliament will be> summoned to meet on December 4 the Prime Minister said; " In accordance with my duty I have discussed tho situation with His Excellency tho Governor-General, who has been pleased to accept the advice I have taken tho responsibility of tendering. '• I may also state that in tho interval until Parliament assembles it is tho intention of tho Government to refrain from making any appointments boyond such as aro essential for tho proper discharge of the public business.'' THE UNITED CAUCUS. AUCKLAND MEMBERS RETURN SUGGESTION DISCREDITED. Most p| tlie United fnenihers of Parliament in thq Auckland Province returned from the party caucus in Wellington yesterday. They h<td np further light to throw upon tho pojjtipaj outlook, and generally indicated. it was premature to speculate on the outcome before Parliament meets next week.

The party caucus decided that only the leader pf the party, Sir Joseph Ward, woujd issue statements for publication. It was definitely stated, however, that no serious Cabinet-making plans havo yet been formulated, and a suggestion recently that tljp United Party anticipated support from nine members of the Reform Party wqs discredited. It is expected several members of Parliament will Jeave for Wellington to: morrow cveping. PETITION NOT LIKELY. THE RICCARTON SEAT. " QUITE HAPPY TO WAIT." [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. 3 CHIiJSTCHUftpH, Sunday.

It is not likely that anything further will ho hearfl in regard to the suggested lodging of a petition against the election of Mr. If. S. S. Kyle, successful Reform candidate for Riccarton.

"I ain quite happy to wait until the next election, 1 ' said Mr. A. McLaptyan, the defeated United Party candidate, yesterday. "There will not be anything further regarding tho petition as far as I am concerned. I do not and have not entertained it, and cannot for the life of mo soo how anybody else is poing to do it. I have not entertained it from the start."

"NO OFFICE SEEKER." PORTFOLIO OF EDUCATION. STATEMENT BY MR. S. G. SMITH. Replying to the congratulations of the Taranaki Education Board on his electipn tp rppfesppt Npw Plymouth in the Ifpuse of Representatives, Mr. S. Q. Smith (pnitcd), who is chairman of the board, said that with regard to the mention of his name as tho possible next Minjstpr pf Education, he was not an office-seeker and his first duty was to the people who elected liim and the Dominion iis a whole. If he should be "asked to accept n higher position, he realised that it would carry tremendous responsibilities, and ho could probably not look fonyard tp tho sairi'e degree of co-operation as_ he fiad always received on the board. What the futures held was in tho lap of the gods.