GENERAL ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1925, Page 3

GENERAL ELECTIONS

[BY TELEGRAPH —PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND WEST. Final. —Auckland West—M. J. Savage (Lab.) Alb 7 ; S. Okliiield (R.) -ISMI. congratulatory. WELLINGTON, Nov. 0. Sim e the night of the election, the Prime Minister has boon the recipient of many thousands of congratulatory messages upon his party's success at the polls, not only Irom supporters and admirers in New Zealand, hut from Vancouver. Sydney and Great Britain. Numbers of these came irom soldiers who had served with Mr Coates in France, one of whom wired : “I feel as elated as when I came mil of La Basscville.”

Mr Coates’ 'Tittle cobber, ’ Master (I'Carrol I aged 11, who became turnons during the Prime Minister's visit to Christchurch was among the first to get in with his congratulation and very best wishes. He wired: “Glad you are Prime Minister for keeps.’’ The Prime .Minister’s reply was “Many thanks for your kind message. It was very good of you to think of me.”

.MR COATES’ .MANDATE. (Received this day at 11.2.3 a.in.) SYDNEY, Nov. 6. The “Telegraph" says of the sweeping victory of the Coates’ (iovernnient in New Zealand, that it is on Mr Coates, that Mr Massey's mantle has fallen. It is a victory lor the tones of law and order against those forces which of late attempted to disrupt the industrial life of the Dominion. The Labour Party seems unahle to make much headway in New Zealand. In this respect the Dominion resembles Victoria the mutt Conservative, of the Australian States. Its people have been described as more British than those of Britain herself. Certainly there is no part of tin- British Empire more loyal to ‘British traditions and institutions, and consequently more opposed to the red teachings of Moscow. Mr Coates has been given an unmistakeable mandate to carry on Constitutional (iovernnient. CANADIAN ELECTIONS Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.j MINORITY TO iU'J.E. (Received this day at 12 noon). OTTAWA, November (>. Opinions regarding Premier King’s decision to hang on to [lower vary according to political views, the Eiberals claiming that no other course is open, while the Conservatives assert Mr Moighait should have been asked to form a (lovernnient as lie is the leader of the largest individual party, but all sides are agreed that another election is due within a few months, during which the country will remain in a disturbed condition. Parliament will most likely be called together early in January and the country will undoubtedly witness the spectacle of ■ t Progressives ruling the entire Dominion by virtue of the fact that their support is necessary to ensure Mr King a majority. TRADE TREATIES DENOUNCED. OTTAWA, November (>. Mr R. 11. Pooler, Conservative Opposition Reader in the British Columbia Parliament, in the opening speech of the session immediately attacked the Dominions ami the (nnadiaii-Aus-tralian Treaty. He said thousands of eases of Australian eggs were already destined for Vancouver, as the result for the treaty to sell at forty-eight vents against sixty-live obtainable by local producers. He foreshadows a vigorous anti-treaty campaign by tho Western Canadians. MR MKIOMAN'S OPINION. Describing Mr MacKenzie King’s announcement that he will continue in ofliee as “ a usurpation of power and contempt of popular will.” Mr Mcighan, late on Thursday night, issued a, statement in which he says, “ There has never been a ease in Canada and none for the third of a century in Britain, where the leader of a minority group has refused to resign immediately the will of the people was known.”