PRIME MINISTER FAREWELLED
ENTHUSIASM AT AUCKLAND.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, Bth September
Amid cheering and the singing of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," the Prime Minister left Auckland by the Limited express this evening for Wellington, whore he will. embark on the Makura on Tuesday to attend the Imperial Conference. Mr. Coates said good-bye to his younger children and his. relatives at Matakolie to-day, and when he arrived on the platform at the railway station to join the Limited express ho was greeted by a largo crowd of friends and well-wishers, with whom he chatted for a few minutes and conveyed his appreciation of their expressions of goodwill. In anticipation of a crowd, tho Railway Department made j the platform open to the public, although porters wore on duty at the gates. The leave-taking of the Prime Minister was very informal, no speeches being made. When Mr. Coates stopped on to the carriage platform the crowd burst into a song of eulogy, following it with cheers, which were repeated on the call of the Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, when Mr. Coates appeared on the rear platform and called his final farewell. An announcement as to which member of the Cabinet will take over his portfolio as Minister of Railways will not be made for a few days yet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1926, Page 7
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