IN GLASGOW

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 5

IN GLASGOW

MR BRUCE AND MR COATES INSPECT GREAT INDUSTRIES TRIBUTE PAID TO SCOTS MR COATES REFERS TO THEIR PIONEER WORK IN NEW ZEALAND Th'e Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand visited Glasgow, and Mr Coates, in a speech, paid a high tribute to the Scots pioneer in New Zealand.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November, 25.

Glasgow provided one of its most dismal days of fog and drizzle for the visit of the Dominion delegates. Mr Coates’s party travelled early and separately from Edinburgh.

Mr Bruce and the others were later welcomed at Aberconway by Sir Thomas Bell, chairman of Messrs Brown and Co., whose works are at Clvdehank. The Australians and Newfoundlanders inspected the cruisers Australia and Canberra. The hull of the Australia is completed, and the launching will take place in February. She will he commissioned a year later, and the Canberra three months later. The work has been held up hv the strike creating a lack of materials. The cruisers will include the latest improvements. In the language of an Australian officer aboard. “They’ll be the most efficient fighting machines permitted by the Washington Treaty.” ON BOARD THE AUSTRALIA Mrs Bruce, on board the Australia, started the electrically driven machinery for planing the edges of the gunturret base, and took away the first shavings. Later the party saw the boilers, complete with their turbine unit, for the new high-speed cruisers. Three Australian engineering officers, Commanders Ross and Mears and LieutenantOommunder Carr (a brother of “SHo” Carr), were presented to Mr and Mrs Bruce.

Later, Mt and Mrs Bruce and Mr Monroe, with a large number of Glasgow commercial people, had luncheon at Messrs Brown’s Works. Mr Bruce, unexpectedly called upon to speak, delivered one of his* most forceful utterances cm Empire defence and the Do-

minions, and claimed the rights, privileges, and status defined by the Imperial Relations Committee. The Dominions, he said, must shoulder corresponding burdens. MR COATES AT BRIDGETON Mr Coates’s party this morning inspected Arrol’s works at Bridgeton, which recently received a £1.500.000 order for steel work for the New Zealand railway workshops. They also saw a new turbine locomotive which specially got up steam to give the visitors a ride to Messrs Beardmore’s where they saw the engines of the new airships. The party took tea at. the University, and in the evening they were the guests at dinner of the Glasgow Corporation. SCOTS IN OTAGO (Received November 26, 5.5 p.nO Mr Coates, speaking at the banquet, paid a high tribute to the pioneering work done by the Scots in the early days of New Zealand, especially in Otago. The earliest Scottish settlers, he said, showed wonderful forethought in their provision fnr education, with the result that Dunedin University was esteemed throughout the world. "THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH” Sir Robert Horne said that in the present times of difficulty, disappointment and distress it was good to remember that they had a mighty collection of sister nations, still permeated by the spirit of youth, which furnished the inspiration for new encouragement. He mentioned that after attending a metallurgical conference in Canada next August he would go to spend a few weeks in New Zealand and Australia.