"A BREEZY YOUNG MAN."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19549, 31 January 1927, Page 12

"A BREEZY YOUNG MAN."

PRIME MINISTER- ON TOUR. IMPRESSIONS OF MR. COATES. OUR- OWN * CORRESPONDENT,] LONDON, Dec. 15, Soma very appreciative references to N?w Zealand's Prime Minister have appeared in the newspapers during Mr. Co'atej* tour oii England, Scotland, and Ireland. J '7 ... .. . .The Cork Examiner said:—"All the Dominion " Premiers have received the Freedom of'various cities, but/ the New Jlealahd premier wiil take back more than any of the others. He is a tell, good-looking, genial man, and has been very popular wherever he has gone." . The Yorkshire Telegraph and Star remarked:—"The visit cf Mr. Coates Brought an unusually large crowd to the Chaihber of Commerce luncheon, and both at' th'afc : function and at the subsequentpresentation of the Freedom of the City, a most favourable impression was made. The "Prima Minister does not look like a politician, though when we come tothink of it we do not reallv know what politicians; look like. What"he does look like is a soldier, and that was what lie was. in the War. He does aot- profess to be an'orator, but he is a very cogent and effective speaker, and certainly has a dijtinct gift for advocacy. After hearing his descriptions of New Zealand we all wanted' to go there.'' Tho following appeared in the Sheffield Mail:—"lti Sheffield we have taken to our hearts and oo to our Burgess Rellof Freeman, a breezy young man who insists upoi. being the accepted ruler of j the prosperous Dominion of New Zealand j at a ridiculously early age. Emigration! can have no finer advertisement than I % bealttyr frame of this ox-farmer turned Prime Minister in the years of early manhood. Yet Mr. Coates is not .W'. emigrant. On the contrary, he is the first ;,New Zealand-born man to hold the Premiership of the twin islands. 'Can wa not copy the spirit of bold experiment that places in positions of command young and vigorous men of proved goodwill and good brain? It.does not require half a century of service to testthose qualities. In the case of Mr. Coates he settled the matter quite simply Z' S f vice V, And a man is Si, to - render distinguished sercrisis of war he is surely HSL-ff the difficulties of peacs—» so be he has not allowed the Swt S «f Ea L ra '! i ! ar i st traditions (the spirit of old militarists) to mislead him. This is the day of the young man and the young country. Let's aU be youn""