PESSIMISM AT HOME.
ALMOST A HABIT. (Received Saturday, noon.) LONDON, Friday. “It seems that it has almost 'become a habit in Britain to look upon the gloomy side of-everything. I. cannot understand'thq.f.' view at all. The worse things are the greater the optimism ought to be,” declared Mr Coates when responding to the ' toast of his health at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Guildhall, Worcester. Speaking of the Conference, ho said that after listening to all the speeches he thought Britain ought to feel very, pleased that she had been admitted into the Empire (laughter). New Zealanders aro far more British than the people here, where lie had seen “God Save the King’\s'ung with three people sitting. They would not. tolerate that in New Zealand for verygood and sufficient reasons.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 December 1926, Page 5
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