BRITAIN TOO GLOOMY.
MR. COATES' ADMONITION. TIME TO BE OPTIMISTIC. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Dec. 3. The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Air. J. G. Coates, was the guest of commercial men at luncheon at Guildhall,' Worcester. In responding to the toast of his health, he said it seemed almost to have become a habit in Britain to look upon the gloomy side of everything. "I cannot understand that view at all," said Mr. Coates. "The worse things are the greater the optimism ought to be." Speaking of the Imperial Conference, he said that after having listened to all the speeches, he thought Britain ought to feel very pleased that she had been admitted into the Empire. (Laughter.) New Zealanders were far more British than tho people in England, where he had seen "God Save the King" sung with three people sitting. They would not tolerate that in New Zealand for very good and sufficient reasons.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19503, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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