PAPER-MAKER KNIGHTED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 309, 18 September 1918, Page 9

PAPER-MAKER KNIGHTED

SIR HOWARD SPICER, K. 8.8; Representatives of the paper trade of Great Britain tendered a luncheon to Sir Howard Spicei- ,'K.8.8;, in London on June 28, by way of consratulatiug him OB the distinction which had been conferred upon him by tho King. The honour was the outcome of notably good work having been dono by the firm of James Spicer and Sons in the manufacture olf gas masks-fo rtlie soldiers at tho front. Lord Bufn,ham,_ who was cordially received, in proposing the health,of Sir Howard Spicor, referred to the fact that ono typo of. man who- had come cut on top'during tho testing times'of war has been the English man of business.' They thought that in the prosperity of tho twentieth century ho had become something of a slacker, without the hustling energy of his transAtlantic brother or the organised efficiency of the State-controlled Gorman. But the British merchant had splendidly vindicated his reputation, iu the war. It was the British man of business who had run'the civil side of the.conflict. If he (Lord Burnham) had-to select the British man of business at his best he should'not go further than tho gentleman who was on his right that afternoon. (Cheers.) Sir. Howard Spicer was' a great man of business, arid ho came of a great business house. plauso. His firm and family had been ideiiiified for tho last century with the best traditions of British trade.'(Hear, hear'.) ' His' Lordship'.mentioned his two -(friends, Sir Albert Spicer and Sir Evan, Spicer, as having shown their public spirit 'in many' directions. They were proud, of their-relative and •namesake, and that little festival was held because thoy all wished to con-. Rratulato Sir Howard Spicer on the honour which it had pleased tho Soveroigno to bestow ..upon him. '(Applause.) • ..,'".