COALITION DEFENDED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 8

COALITION DEFENDED

LYTTELTON CAMPAIGN MIL <'OATES TAKES PART SATISFACTORY MEETINGS (Per Press Association.) CIHMSTCII ITKCIL last night. The Rt. lion. .). 0. Coates arrived on Saturday to lend assistance in the Coalition campaign for the Lyttelton electorate. lie had a most strenuous dav, delivering four addresses, at. Lit tie Liver, Urnauchelle, Akaroa and < )pa wa. He had a most,‘ cordial recept ion on the penisiila, but his evening meeting at Opawti was lively. There was a strong Labor contingent present, and they interjected loudly and often. Air Coates answered realily and effeetivelv. 11 is speech was certainly effective and the meeting was satisfactory. A vote of thanks and eonlidence was do (dared carried on a show of hands against an amendment of thanks and no confidence. Mr Coates traversed the Roosevelt recovery plan in the Foiled states, stating that it was a mere experiment, and in any ease provided nothing that New Zealand had not enjoyed nr the end of Inst century. The ini’leasing of purchasing power was its aim, dml .Mr Roosevelt was also increasing costs, and il remained to be seen whether more poods would actually he produced and sold. He defended the Government’s policy of wonomies to meet, the crisis of the Inst three years, and also the measures taken to protect from hardship farmers tnd tenants. Referring again to America, lie ■.bowed liovv enormous numbers of men had been evicted from, homes and farms. Me appealed for support for he Coalition candidate, saying that, tit hough prices were improving and here was a turn for the better, “we Mill /lid not know wlmt shocks were thead.” II was, he said, no time for t change in policy and experiment. The iced was for steadiness and .ability in I,lie control of the country•’*. affairs.