MOST TALKED OF MAN
MR. COATES AM) FIN ANCE HIS NEW PORTFOLIO “The most talked of man in Nev, Zealand to-day is Mr. Coates,. Minister of Finance and Minister oi Customs, but comment is the reverse of laudatory. In the Parliamentary lobbies,. instance, amazement is openly txBJpressed that a former Minister of Public Works should have snouldered a portfolio for which he has had. no training, and which is the most important and onerous of all the Ministerial offices. “ 1 Why did Mr. Coates receive the portfolio?’ is a question frequently asked. perhaps more outside than within Parliamentary circles. The answer is not hard to find. Theie is a Coalition Government in power. Its policy is one based on principles of compromise, and a condition of it., was an equal distribution of Under this plan there are five United portfolio holders and five Tieform. The office which fell vacant by the resignation of Mr. Stewart was a Reform portfolio; in other words it belonged to the Reform Group and was not within the redistribution of the Prime Minister. Mr. Coates, as co-leader of the oCalition Party, nominated himself for the position and became the most talked of man in jjblhe Dominion, to-day.”—Special to "he “Christchurch Star,” from Wellington.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 32, 30 January 1933, Page 3
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