UNITED PARTY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 23, 22 August 1928, Page 6

UNITED PARTY

MR COATS SUGGESTS FUSION.

A POWER TO BE RECKONED WITH.

WELLINGTON 1 , August 21

A suggestion that the United Party should link! up with the Reform Party in order to presentj a sond front to Labour was made by the Rt. Hon. J. G, Coates, Prime Minister, m the course of an address at Wanganui last, night. The contest this year, he said, would be between Reform Party and the Labour Party and its principles, and there was room for only two parties. There, was no room for an intermediate party which was just as prog revive and liberal as the United Party.

That Mr Coates' invitation was m thje nature of an SOS signal was the suggestion of Mi- G. W. Forbes today. The United Party had come into existence, he' said!, 0 n account of the widespread conyictiom that the present Prime Minister had proved a failure in thai; position and, instead of guiding the affairs of the Dominion- on statesmanlike hues with a definite goal in view, had taken the line of least resistance, hoping to please everybody. His f<*" es * °f administration had allowed the public Service to become the real Government of the *H* would find that the Party had to he reckoned with seriously.