DUKE REACHES ROTORUA
MR. COATES UNABtE TO ATTEND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Rotorua, Last Night Unable to attend the Maori Welcome to the Duke, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, who has just returned to New Zealand from Australia, has advised the Hon. J. A. Young that but for an accumulation of business he would have been present “I know I would have enjoyed in company with my Maori friends the reception they will give the Royal visitor/' h» said. "Please convey to the people my best wishes and the assurance that although I cannot be with them in person my heart, as I feel sure they will know, is with them and is warmly as* sociated with theirs on one of the most memorable of many days.” The Duke had a free evening, which he spent with his suite at the hotel after dinner. .
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1934, Page 7
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