FLOWERS FOR MRS. COATES.
EX-SOLDIER'S TRIBUTE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORTER.] DARGAVILLE, Tuesday. 111 the years since the Prime Minister fiist. entered public life Mrs. Coates has been the recipient of many bouquets, but never has tho human note been more truly sounded than it was to-day at Kirikopuni, at tho ceremony of opening the new railway line.
Hovering in the background of a small crowd that, wan gathered about the Prime Minister and Mrs. Coates at the close of the ceremony was a returned soldier settlor with a mass of flowers in a newspaper.
"Are you going to decorate your whare." queried tho Prime Minister.
"I do not think they would go well down there," the soldier replied, "As a matter of fact I am waiting until you get out of the road—l want to give these to Mrs. Coates."
The Prime Minister laughed and gave way.
"I am only a 'roughie,' Mrs. Coates." said the soldier, "but I would like you to have them."
None could have been more pleased than the ox-service man as he turned away with Mrs. Coates' grateful acknowledgment of the gift.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 12
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187FLOWERS FOR MRS. COATES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 12
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