GENERAL ELECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1928, Page 5

GENERAL ELECTION

MAORI CANDIDATE.

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

CHRISTCHURCH:, Oct. 25.

Erurua Tihema Tirikatene is announced as a candidate for the Southern Maori Electorate as a Ratanaite. There are how six candidates in the field, •' ' , $ V :

MR COATES OPTIMISTIC. • - ‘ . ' -b/ • - , WELLINGTON, October 23. “ Very satisfactory indeed,” said the ; Prime Minister, commenting- on his. V visit to the South Island ,on his return /; to Wellington to-day. Mr Coates'said - that he had addressed meetings at; / Christchurch } Dunedin, Invercargill and \ ; Otautau, and, he had met a number of* candidates of Other constituencies, besides electors in all walks,of life, who are exhibiting interest in the welfare of the Dominion. -

“ Everywhere,” Mr Coates said, “ I found complete confidence concerning the results of the elections. Reform , supporters were/steadfast, and they, re- . ; ported that /they Were adding to 'thei«' ; ' / ; v numbers every day:" - My yisit to/the . South Island on this occasion was" suf- . ; - ficient to convince me ‘that . not only,; will the Reform Party holds its own . there, but that there is; every/ prospect / of our representation; in ./ Parliament. / from the South being increased.” , Mr Coates added that he had found that a plain, direct' statement of the •/ facts of the case -as they. applied to . New Zealand’s emergence from the world-wide of 1926 and the V : prospects ahead, the' achievements of the Government during the past three ' years, and the work to be done in the ' immediate ; future, appealed, to the peo--.. pie. He and his colleagues were pre- . pared to stand by their record, and , from his experience in the, South he' " was sure that the electors appreciated that the Government acted wisely and well during the difficult period. ; Mr Coates, accompanied by Mrs Coates, left by the afternoon express’ - ■ for • Dargaville, where he will address, his own constituents to-morrow-night;