PARLIAMENT’S REGRET
MR. COATES'S TRIBUTE TO MR. NOSWORTHY Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. An announcement was made by the Prime Minister to-day in regard to the Reform candidate for the Mid-Canter-bury seat at the general election. “I have received advice from the Hon. W. Nosworthy,” said Mr. Coates, “that he does not now intend to contest the seat, and consequently the arrangement made previously between Mr. Nosworthy and Mr. D. Jones, M.P., will stand. The latter will therefore be the official Reform candidate. In view of Mr. Nosworthy’s long period of service both to the district, and to the Dominion, I feel sure that the intimation of his retirement from the active political arena will be received with regret by his many friends. This regret, I need hardly say, is shared by myself and other colleagues in the Government. “I may point out, however, that a very large portion of the Ellesmere electorate has been included in the new Mid-Canterbury district, and that in the present member for Ellesmere, electors of Mid-Canterbury "will have as the Government candidate a man, who would by his wide public experience, worthily represent them in Parjtoxamtfr-—, :
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 464, 20 September 1928, Page 14
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191PARLIAMENT’S REGRET Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 464, 20 September 1928, Page 14
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