PARTY AND COUNTRY.
AN UNFORTUNATE PHRASE
MR. COATES CRITICISED
WELLINGTON, Wednesday
No one who knows Mr. J. G. Coates at. all intimately would suspect him of placing party before the country and its people in such a crisis as the one the Dominion is passing through. The Leader'of the Opposition, however, is not a particularly happy phrase-maker, and the Press Association credits him with having said in Auckland Hie other day that insofar as Mr. Forbes followed the proposals of the Reform Party he would support the Government in measures which were considered in the national interests. The Post, commenting upon this statement, says “ surely silence would have been better than a statement so safe, so bald, so cold and so ill expressed.” These scathing words would have been appropriate enough had Mr. Coates declared he would follow Mr. Forbes only when Mr. Forbes followed the Reform Party. If this is what the Leader of the Opposition really said in effect then his political blood must rest on his own head. The country is in no humour to-day for the resumption of party strife.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18257, 19 February 1931, Page 8
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