MR COATES’S POPULARITY.
WANGANUI, July 18. Mr Coates is very highly 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 i.t the back if him a large majority. New Zealand was a small country, but it was surprising to find the number of people at * ’ome 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 be when he visited the Old ountry, and it would not be surprising also to find and it would not be surprising also to find that he would receive more attention than any other statesman from the remote parts of the British Empire. It was wonderful, added Mr Poison, to know how popular Mr Coates was in other parts of the world, apart from his own country.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3775, 20 July 1926, Page 33
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175MR COATES’S POPULARITY. Otago Witness, Issue 3775, 20 July 1926, Page 33
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