“COATES AND CHAOS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 7

“COATES AND CHAOS”

MR. MUNN’S IMPRESSIONS Words almost failed Mr. G. C. Munns, United candidate for Roskill. when he gave his impressions of the Reform Party, to a large audience at Dominion Road. Finally he agreed that it comprised an inept and impossible lot of nincompoops. He told his audience last evening that on a visit to Parliament last session ho listened to the most stodgy lot of speeches he had ever heard. Members were sleeping, and generally there was not a quarter of the energy in the House that there was on his stage. (Laughter.) Continuing, he said Reform had not put a single piece of progressive legislation on the Statute Book during its regime. Reform had been living in the afterglow of the old Liberals throughout its terms. Mr. Munns, speaking of the country drift to the towns, said it was a crying shame that a Government could not do its job well enough to prevent the conditions causing the drift. The seriousness of the position was best known to those in the city, who had children requiring work. It had happened that he required 10 girls for sales work in Auckland, and had advertised, getting 200 applicants. After thoroughly condemning the Reform Party and its broken pledges, the speaker said: “And now they come back with the same cry of “Coates and Confidence.* We say it should be ‘Coates and Confusion,’ or ‘Coates and Chaos.’ ”

An excellent meeting concluded with a vote of thanks and confidence carried by. a large majority. -