MR COATES AT HOME

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 25 October 1928, Page 5

MR COATES AT HOME

VISIT TO OWN ELECTORATE 1 GREAT RECEPTION AT PAPAROA. DARCAVILLE, Last Night. i < The Prim? Minister, the Rt. Hdn, j. G. Coates, in continuation of his Dominion tour, reached his own electorate to-day and was met enthusiastically at Paparoa, whore, afterj a few minutes’ chat with intimate friends, he pro- ■ seeded to address the largest audience ever seen at ai political meeting in that town, Mr Coates paid (he noticed Mr Holland had devoted a considerable amount of his time to attacking the speaker and the Government generally, and ho made no apolcgy fox" dealing witlx the attacks at that, his first meeting in hi 8 own electorate, for he had noticed that his opponent had pinned his faith to the Labour Party. BACK TO 1913. Mr Coates said! he would go hack to 1913 and show where Mr Holland had stood then, and the speaker proceeded to quote from an article by Mr Holland entitled- '‘Labour leg ironed”. lit this Mr Holland! had said hisj jpfrrty) ’hostility jtol the Arbitration Coxxrt, and had advised til© workers to fight with every weapon to serve working class interests andj keep their eyes turned towards the goal of social revolution.” “RED RULE.” Did Mr Holland recall having acted as a delegate from New Zealand in 1921 to a conference in Australia which had adopted the notorious “iiledi llulie’b orascHu.ti|oin iwhiah hack been the curse of Australia, and New Zealand ever since? ’ Did Mr Holland remember his acttivo participation and sym r atliv towards the part the British seamen played in. their unofficial strike of

> -V 102-“ ?Mr Coates said he- hardly thou edit the memories of the people of New Zealand were so short as to forget Air Holland’s attitude on that occasion. iMUtn'O rUH OllMNuiim, Again, ad Mr Holland recall navnig luinarucu a uj me jjxitxsu j-uuutu' rarty, uxicxi Jt lormeu. a council oi ucUciiij a movement mr o. ii. Hiomas, ijtiuour ju.r'., casuwxxeu as it was in Jus opinion, uenuiieiy X{.£cUXlSt IXIO e/OXXOUI/ULI ti. j'xu vxi moUanU. also remember opposing me seuunig or iMitisn troops u> cuxangliar last year to protect Lritisn subjects i* SAMOA. AH'. Coitus further a&ked if tiitj public woutdj lorget Mr. Holland's attitude towards those wiio were com corned in the intrigue to undermine tiie Administration m feamoa. Mr. Coates said Mr. Holland liad always associated himself with anything uiai. savoured or revolution and u any people had any de/übt s as to whether the Labour Party had changed xts altitude titey had lo note only the statement of Mr. J. A. Leo, Labour candidate for Auckland Last, who on Tuesday 'night said the Labour Party had no change of heart. the leopard and its spots. Air. Holland was leader of the party with which Mr. Coates’ oppon- , ut, Air. Barclay, associated himself. They might say they had changed, but the Prime ALnistir asked if a leopard could change its spots. There was no doubt ‘'that they hadj both feet on the- soft pedal. The meeting at Paparoa concluded ,after passing a vote of thanks and confidence in Air. Coates and the Reform Party amid a scene of even greater enthusiasm than that in which it started.