MR COATES ANSWER A RUMOUR

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21729, 11 March 1936, Page 10

MR COATES ANSWER A RUMOUR

REPORTS OF RETIREMENT'! FROM POLITICS "' j ; 5

(PEBSS ASSOCUTIOK TILEGRAa.t ' ,; AUCKLAND, March 10, }\

"If you ask me about the rum* J ours that are circulating,' I wiji| simply say that they may or maji riot be true. If you ask me straight-si out whether I am retiring fronij politics, my reply is that I .am still] a member of Parliament, and 14a&; not the kind that runs away"'This was the answer given byijftej Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates when he'wasj asked whether there was any dation for the rumours that he in-.' tended to abandon political life for a career in business. These ports, which have been widely cif-1 culated in Auckland for some weeks,, were mostly to the effect that; he; was about to accept executive or otherwise, in various,: companies. On the names concerns, however, rumour did iitofcj agree. ■' -;