MR COATES AT HOME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 9

MR COATES AT HOME

ADVICE TO BRITISH PEOPLE. PESSIMISM DEPRECATED. (Preu Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 3. “It seems that it has almost become a habit in Britain to look upon the gloomy side of everything. I cannot understand that view at all. The worst things are, the greater the optimism ought to bo,” declared Mr Coates when responding to his health at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Guildhall, in Worcester. Speaking of the conference, he said that after listening to all the speeches he thought that Britain ought to feel very pleased that she had been admitted to the Empire. (Laughter.) “New Zealanders,” he said, “are far more British than the people here, where I have seen ‘God Save the King’ sung with three people sitting. They would not tolerate that in New Zealand, for very good and sufficient reasons.” —A. and N.Z. Cable. A TEMPORARY INDISPOSITION. LONDON, December 4. (Received Dec. 5, at 5.5 p.m.) Mr Coates is temporarily indisposed as the result of a severe cold. He is spending the week-end at Leominster with his cousin, Colonel Coates, a former member of the Indian railway service.—A. and N.Z. Cable.