MR. J. G. COATES
RETIREMENT RUMOR Rumors have been current in Auckland that the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates intended to resign his seat and take up a commercial position, but when he was in Auckland last week he gave an assurance in an interview that he did not contemplate retiring from polities. Now that there is a Labor Government in office, Mr Coates, like other ex-Ministers of the National Coalition Government, is reduced to the status of an ordinary member of Parliament, and it has been stated that a man of his active temperament and capacity for hard work might be expected to undertake some private work which would keep him fully occupied during the Parliamentary recess.
When the Auckland Star's Whangarei correspondent spoke by telephone to Mr Coates, who was at his home at Paparoa, he would neither confirm nor deny the report emanating from Dargaville.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 4
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