OUR PREMIER’S PEREGRINATIONS

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 4

OUR PREMIER’S PEREGRINATIONS

His first grand tour abroad is, still proving full of oxpectional intqrest for Premier Coates. Good things u ff’cq'e said of him by the mouthpiece,,of the Guildhall in presenting the golden casket containing the engrossed dom of the. city of London, Tp-ffay lie is leaving the li.ub of the Empire for historic Edinburgh, where h tffe Premier is to be doubly honoured to-morrow—receiving the frepflpiu, of that ancient city and its almost .equally ancient University will bestow upon him the coveted Doctorate of Laws, so ffhat when next bis home town of

Dargaville greets him ]i 0 will be Dr. Coates. From Edinburgh be pays a business call at Glasgow, as Minister, of /Railways; to ihspect some locomotive shops there. Back again in England at th 6 end of this week, Mr Coates receives the freedom of the city of; Stoke-on-Trent, also next week gathering yet another golden box and freedom at Sheffield. As the Imperial Conference has now 'concluded its work, the nights and days of Now Zealand’s delegate will he filled with business ana 1 social engagements from now until tne end of next month He intends revisiting next month the scenes of strife over whicp he fought along the western, front of France, and is timed to leave England on his .return to New Zealand on New Year’s Eve. Tt may he added that Mr Coates is acquitting himself well on his first visit to the Homeland as the political head of and spokesman for New Zealand.