COUNTRY PARTY
JUST A SUPERNUMERARY PRIME MINISTER HITS OUT AUDIENCES APPLAUD HIS SENTIMENTS. (Special to ‘'Chronicle.”) WHANGAREI, Oct. 20. "Let me say a few words about the Country Party/’ said the Prime Minister at Kaikohc this morning. "I come from the soil, and though it is a few years since I have worked on the land I have kept in touch with it all the time. I won ’t give way to anyone in my knowledge of the requirements of the people on the land. "Members of the Country Party say they will vote the Government out of office and join with Labour, and vote the Government out again. If you are going to have candidates of that description they are no use to the Government which has drafted the programme for which I stand. My manifesto is not elaborate. We have seen so many of these manifestos which promise the moon, when a big proportion of the promises cannot be fulfilled and have to be dropped. I believe my programme can be carried out. It will give the country an opportunity to create wealth and then distribute it amongst the people instead of first doing things the other way, namely, mortgaging our inheritance and then endeavouring to create the wealth.” The meeting, which, though held at 9.30 in the morning, consisted of a full ’mil, unanimously passed a vote of confidence in the Government and heartily cheered the Prime Minister, and the Maoris present concluded the proceedings with a haka. Speaking at noon at Kawakawa, Mr Coates made further reference to the subject. "I cannot,” he said, "think of a Government that has done more for the country people than the present Government has. The wants and the requirements of the country people always have been considered, because the Government recognised the value of the man on the land. The Country Party is a supernumerary and really has no place in the constellation. I don’t know why they exist.” The Kawakawa meeting concluded with a vote of confidence in the Coates’ Administration.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19434, 21 October 1925, Page 7
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