REFORM LEADER

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1930, Page 3

REFORM LEADER

:■ .'."vte". WAIPAWAHteCBTON SRHECH. ;! !(V< : ■'■ By Telegraph--Per Press Aasoeiat loti : TAKAPU. Sept, 29. A gntheriiTg of ofet' five? hundred Waip-iwa electors ; asesmlbled to-night to hear Hon. J. G. Coates .who spoke in fiii-ppoi’t-'faff-;- Mr-William Tucker, thfe Reform-efthdidate ft'ii- Wai]Mi%#; : 'seab/ Mr Paulson pVbsidetly ' A rolls ing -recejlti oh was accorded v- Art’ Coates mml - by : fully entliusßistic iriieetihg. Ji: Mi w Tucker’s address was on tlie lines of hf« first He deatrTif with the history of the Reform Party, taxation, finance, wnys. He”eTrmhasised how^^^iv^efor'm Pai*ty ,^>l[p|d ! ..the. f ■miinity. '.. He <;, cdiltei’ded thapsTOjeme iilsue between the Reform Parties was clear out and -’definite. The Liberals, he said, who were arrogating to themselves the title of the United Party, were simply a wreck otf a .party that had never had courage to disavow Socialism and Labour, nor brains to forsee th” inevitable trend of Socialist Labour policy. New Zealand wanted men unafraid to declare for the right to make duty to the country and Empire a first consideration. Sjv; Mr Coates, referring to ummiploymeiiit, salid the policies of thfi-gv two Parties wore widely Unless a strong policy was adopted the question, instead of being ; : ;So|yed, would be aggravated. No coiiigdmise in principle was possible. I lie gnioant paid for the unemployment;’y work grew from £450,000 in 1928 to.'; £1 500,000 in 1930, while the registered unemployed grew from 2,300 to 5,600 in July lnlst. These figures • themselves afforded incontrovertible evidence of a failure of ’the Government’s policy.