WAIPAWA SEAT

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 271, 21 November 1935, Page 5

WAIPAWA SEAT

Minister of Finance

VOTE FOR OFFICIAL CANDIDATE

“MR. ORMOND’S TIME NOT YET!”

“There is only one way to assure the return of the National Government and that is to vote for the official candidate,” said the Minister of Finance, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, in his address at Havelock North yesterday afternoon, when he advised the electors of Waipawa to support Mr. Jull. A vote to the Democrats, said Mr. Coates, was a vote to Labour, and a vote to any other candidate would probably be a vote to Labour. “Mr. Ormond is my friend,” continued Mr. Coates, “and I have the greatest admiration for him, but his time iS not yet.”

Mr. Jull, said Mr Coates, had stood up to all the unpleasantness and strenuousness of the past four years, and had helped the Government through. “He is a Liberal,” said Mr. Coates, “and I am what they call a Tory.” But nevertheless they had got on well together and Mr. Jull had stood loyally by the Government. The only satisfactory method of Government was by a working majority, and it was only by a working majority that stability could be assured. Not Facing Two Ways.

This was not the time for Mr. Ormond to stand, Mr. Coates continued, and he went on to express regret that it had been suggested that he was facing tw’o ways on this point—that he was officially supporting Mr. Jull and privately supporting Mr Ormond. There had been a whispering campaign to this effect in the electorate and Mr. Coates wished to make it clear that he definitely supported Mr Jull.

Mr. Ormond had been told by the speaker that Mr. Jull was the official candidate, and that Mr. Jull had his support and was entitled to it up to 100 per cent. (Applause). “I ask the electors,” Mr. Coates added, “if my opinion is worth anything, to support the official candidate, or it may be easy to put Labour in. There is only one way to vote, and I ask you to vote for Mr. Jull. A vote against Mr. Jull is probably a vote for Labour.”

At the conclusion of the meeting, which followed very closely upon Mr. Coates’s remarks in reference to Mr. Jull, Mr. Lachlan McLean expressed appreciation of Mr. Coates’s address and declared his support for Mr. Jull. Mr. R. E. Talbot rose and asked why.it was that Mr. McLean, who had worked and voted for Mr Ormond at the last election, was on this occasion voting for Mr. Jull. In response to a call three cheers were given for Mr. Ormond. Cheers were then given for Mr. Coates, who was also honoured with the singing of “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” Further cheers were given for Mrs. Coates.