"ANOTHER N.Z. CHAMPION"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16801, 14 November 1928, Page 10

"ANOTHER N.Z. CHAMPION"

PRAISE FOR .MR. COATES PREMIER CLEARING FENCES WELL The Lrv-iiol" of the rnrcjilion rjccord-i-.fl the Prune Minister, Mr. Conies, in liU Mm! ii.t* tin: Wairaraiw on Saturday was Hint sounded by Mr. ' v ; Simpson when he moved a vole of t'luu.iks anil confidence in Mr. Coates ill(t ;,. n„, |.'iinii. Miuislcr hud spoken ai Kketahuna. • • ||, i. good because hi' is a Xcw

Zcalander.'" said Mr. Simpson. "We l.rcod iliampiotis here—footballers, nUilcl'es, Limericks and t'Uoamings— In)i never before have we bred a .colt like lliis imo. To iiml his class, look how ho made hacks of them all at lasi election. Now ho has been in. training lor three years. Lie is clearing his" fences well and lie will be hojuc well ahead ol" the field in the race next Wednesday.''

The residents and farmers who had crowded Into the hall 1,0 hoar the Prime Minister found in Mr. Simpson's breezy remarks Ihe words they desired for expressing themselves, and llicy burst into a tumuli of applause Co ' signify, their approval of tho motion ho had moved. It was tho same wherever Mr. Coates went. At Pahintun in the morning the Prime ■Minister was i-lioerod before and'af-tcT tho meeting and again whon he loft for Bkctahuim after lie had boon entertained at lunch. Ekotalnma sent him on his way with assurances, that the voting would be in the Government's favor on Wednesday. At Maurieoville Mr. Coates made local history by being the first Prime Minister to deliver an address there. The hah was, to have boon only one to allow of a handshake with the farmers, but they had the hall ready, and al their soTlcition the Prime Minister spoke for about half an hour.

Ket.ur.neil soldiers of the Wairarapu, look charge of the Prime Minister at Masted on and entertained him at dinner, later occupying special scats which they had secured, for themselves at the public meeting which was I lie last big function of the. day. Here they backed him up when he dealt with some inferjectors occupying their favorite places al the back of (lie hall, and gave additional volume I 'i Ihe applause with, which the motion of thanks and confidence was carried.