MR COATES IN LONDON

Evening Star, Issue 19385, 20 October 1926, Page 5

MR COATES IN LONDON

£ A BUSY TIME vi> ‘' . INUNDATED BY CALLERS, Press Association —By Telegraph—Copjnct& LONDON, October 18. Mr Coates was inundated by callers during the week-end, including _ many New Zealanders, but he found time to confer with Mr Bruce on conference and other matters. The senate of Edinburgh University has written intimating its desire to confer an honorary doctorate of laws. Mr Coates has accepted the invitation, and. will attend a special conference of degrees on November 15. A delegation from the International Press Conference, which recently met at) Geneva, was introduced to Mr Coates by Messrs P. Selig and Robert Bell, of Christchurch, who expressed a cordial welcome. Mr Coates to-day, accompanied by SrC James Parr, inspected the new silo foe the High Commissioner’s offices. Much amusement has been caused ill New Zealand circles by the serious litoral publication in some of the London newspapers of Mr Coates’s jocular* declaration: “My wife is a Londoner i I am a Maori.” with the subsequent explanation that ho only meant that he was a born New Zealander. _ Mrs Coates is enjoying a reunion with; her family. She is already a favorite in Imperial circles. Sir James and Lady Pair to-night gave a successfid reception in honor of Mr and Mrs Coates at the Great Central Hotel. The attendance was 1,400* those invited including Mr and Mrs Amery, Mr and Mrs W. G. A. OrmsbyGore, General Hertzog, President Cos* grave. Sir Joseph and Lady Cook, Gen oral Sir Alexander and Lady Godlcy Sir Thomas Mackenzie, and many No> Zealanders.