RETURNED SOLDIER PRESENTS BOUQUET TO MRS COATES.
(Special to the “ Star.” AUCKLAND. May 17. In the years since the Prime Minister first entered public life, Mrs Coatee has been the recipient of many bouquets, but never has the human note been more truly sounded than it was at Kirikopuni at the ceremony of the opening of the new railway-line. Hovering in the background of a small crowd that was gathered about the Prime Minister and Mrs Coates at the close of the ceremony was a returned soldier settler with a mass of flowers in a newspaper. “ Are you going to decorate your whare?” queried the Prime Minister. “ I do not think they would go well down there.” the soldier replied. “As a matter of fact, I am waiting until you get out of the road. I want to give these to Mrk Coates.” The Prime Minister laughed and gave way. “ I am only a roughie, Mrs Coates,” said the soldier, “ but I would like yott to have them.” No one could have been more pleased than the ex-service man as he turned away with Mrs Coates’s grateful acknowledgment of the gift.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 13
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