DOMINION POLITICS
WHY FUSION WAS DECLINED. STATEMENT BY MR COATES. CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. “ Before any proposal for fusion is discussed the country is entitled to know tlio principles, policy and personnel of the men who have to give effect to the declarations of the suggested united party," said the Leader of the Opposition, the Right Hon. .1. G. Coates, in explaining why he had declined the offer of fusion made by the Prime Minister. Although a national party had an appeal In name, said Mr Coates, actually it would mean little and might load the country into a worse position than ever.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18343, 1 June 1931, Page 7
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101DOMINION POLITICS Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18343, 1 June 1931, Page 7
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