COINCIDENCE!

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 688, 13 June 1929, Page 1

COINCIDENCE!

MR. COATES HAS A “LOT TO SAY” STATEMENT TO THE SUN A denial that he had made certain statements in Auckland recently retarding the completion of the South Island Main Trunk Railway has been Siren by the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Leader of the Opposition. “I have never made any such statement. It has come out of the imagination of the man who wrote it. The only statement I made was made to the ‘New Zealand Herald,’ ” said Mr. Coatee. On Friday, June 7, the ex-Prime Minister was interviewed by a Sun representative and his remarks were jubllshed that afternoon. The statement In the “Herald,” which he claims is the only one he made, appeared the morning after The Sun’s statement appeared. in view of the assertion that the statement appearing in The Sun came out of the imagination of the man who wrote it, it is interesting to ■ompare the following extracts from both reports:— The Sun, June 7. “} a whole lot to say and 7 mill soy it on the floor of the House mh«n it meets." HV proposed to huild a road and Ht railway traffic on it, and then see ww it panned out." “The Herald,” June S. Hr. Coates said there was a great «! more that he could say on the mnr'' and hC wouUl il ° 30 in Pdrliaintended to put down a road ti. ta king heavy motor-traffic, t traffic would thus be Jiandled, and icoafd he given an opportunity of ■ nj; how road and rail business could worked in combination. By the “ was necessary to make a de- . i!u!l concern >ng the line everybody (MU know which would give the mil" ,ervice ’ the heavy road or the

J-Lf h V tatement in The Sun, which f ! rst ’ was never given to the •n\r\*iA T ’ ** * s I n( leed & remarkable it e enC .?k^ hat slloultl compare as 8 with the one written later!