MR. COATES VISITS FRANCE
NEW ZEALAND C'EAIETERIES INSPECTED.
Electric telegraph—Press Association
PARIS, December 22. Air Coates and party visited the Caterpillar Valley cemetery where the names of the twelve hundred unidentified New Zealanders ar© inscribed on a screen on the wall, also four hundred unidentified on the wall of Grevillers cemetery.
The party thence followed the route of the New Zealanders’ atack, and visited cemeteries at Vauxhall, Fancourt, Bousoir and Romereis. ’(.'he Deputy-Alayor of Le Quesnoy received the Premier and a number of citizens joined the procession to the New Zealand memorial garden. When the party' reached Cambrai, the Alayor called at their hotel, and presented a bouquet to Airs Coates.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10427, 23 December 1926, Page 5
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