POLITICAL POSITION.
REFORM AND UNITED. A PLEA FOR GENEROSITY. (Special to Times.)' WELLINGTON, Saturday. The Evening Post still finds some difficulty in reconciling 'tho criticism of the Prime Minister by the Leader of the Opposition with the suavity with which the Right Hon. J. G. Coates offers to the Right Hon, G. W. Forbes iris assistance in pulling the affairs of the Dominion in order. “The fact that Mr Forbes has a past in the shape of his previous dependence upon Labour," tho Post says, "is still made by the Opposition a ground for attack, even after they have agreed to cooperate, but io the disinterested critic it enhances the merit of his performance by increasing the. handicap. A little more generosity in their attitude lo the Prime Minister would do the Opposition no harm. It is indeed neither generous nor just to suggest that New Zealand is suffering from a Forbes depression which, if the same kind of logic ‘on the oilier sldo had been able lo call it a Coates depression, would have been far less severe.” The mild reproach is very adroitly put.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18349, 8 June 1931, Page 7
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186POLITICAL POSITION. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18349, 8 June 1931, Page 7
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