“A COCKY FROM UP NORTH”
MR COATES AND HIS DUNGAREES AMUSING THE AUDIENCE. (Bv Telegraph—Special to “Times. ') OAMARU, October 8. Mr Coates’s delightful frankness completely captured the big Oamaru audience which listened to him to-night. When speaking about the land he mentioned that he was a farmer. '‘Not a very big one,” ho threw in while the audience rocked with laughter, ’’hut just a small cocky from up north.” He had not gone very far when he again delighted the audience with another of his off-hand references la himself. “I don’t suppose this is the place to say it, but it is not very long ago since what I’ had to wear were dungarees. Mv father did not bring us up with silver spoons in our mouths. We had to get out and do the job with the chaps. It is not so long ago that I was out to relievo a friend of a wager, he having said I could not take a team of bullocks and a load of Jogs round a certain bend. One does not altogether forgot the art, and I managed to win tho wager.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12264, 9 October 1925, Page 7
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