BRITAIN HONOURED
ADMISSION TO THE EMPIRE. MR COATES IN LIGHTER VEIN. London, December 3. “It seems it has almost become a habit in Britain to look upon the gloomy side of everything. I cannot understand the view at all. The worse things are the greater the optimism ought to be,” 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 Britain ought to feel very pleased she had been admitted into the Empire.—(Laughter.) New Zealanders are far more British than the people here, where he had 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.&NX
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Southland Times, Issue 20045, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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135BRITAIN HONOURED Southland Times, Issue 20045, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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