MISREPRESENTATION
COUNTRY PARTY AIMS (Special to THE STJN) WHAKATANE, To-day. Maintaining that the Prime Minister had misrepresented the Country Party’s aims, Mr. Frank Colbeck, Country Party candidate for Tauranga, explained the true position here on Saturday night, the Mayor, Mr. W. Sullivan, presiding. The Country Party did not propose to wipe out Customs duties altogether. Its proposals were to remove duties on the necessaries of life. Its ultimate object was free trade within the Empire, but the immediate objective was free trade with the Mother Country, which took all New Zealand produce. The candidate took exception to Mr. Coates’s reference to disgruntled farmers and the Country Party. “X am not ashamed to say I am a disgruntled farmer,” said Mr. Colbeck, “but the term is hardly one of affection, and Mr. Coates might have put in other words. I hope the time will come when no Government will stay in power without the assistance of the Country Party.” A vote of thanks was accorded the candidate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 12
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166MISREPRESENTATION Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 12
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