MR COATES’S POPULARITY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19845, 19 July 1926, Page 8

MR COATES’S POPULARITY.

REGARDED HIGHLY AT HOME. (Fbom Our Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI. July 18. Mr Coates is very thought of at Home, according to Mr W. J. Poison, who said that New Zealand’s Prime Minister had captured the imagination of the Home public to an extraordinary extent. They knew him as a soldier and a young man who had at tho back of him a largo majority. New Zealand was a small country, but it was surprising to find the number of people at Home who had read about Mr Coates and regarded him as a prominent person in world affairs. It would not be surprising, said Mr Poison, to find that Mr Coates would bo accorded a remarkably fine reception when he visited the Old Country next year, and it would not be surprising also to find that he would receive more attention than any other statesman from tho remote parts of the British Empire. It was wonderful, added Mr Poison, to know how popular Mr Coates was in other parts of nie world, apart from his own country.