NEW ZEALAND DAY
INAUGURAL OCCASION
DINNER GIVEN IN LONDON
EMPIRE EEPEESENTED
United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. - LONDON, 9th February. Sir Thomas Wilford presided at the New Zealand dinner at the Savoy Hotel. The guests numbered 450, and included Mr. J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions, and the Indian, Canadian, Free State, and Southern Rhodesian High Commissioners. The King telegraphed felicitations and acknowledged a message of loyalty. The guest of the evening, the Prince of Wales, laughed heartily when Sir Thomas Wilford, in toasting him, referred to him as an aristocrat of the air, all of whose fights had thus far ended with him still as a member of the landed gentry. He laughed again when Sir Thomas said that America would willingly forgive the war debt in return for the Prince. Sir Thomas Wilford Tead congratulatory cable messages from Lord Bledisloe and the Eight Hon. G. W. Forbes. The speech of the Prince, most successfully broadcasted last evening, is reported elsewhere. Mr. Thomas, who arrived in a lounge suit, described his experiences, at an earlier rowdy meeting at Finsbury, at which he was called "Judas." He was asked, ""What about Ireland?" though he expected to be hailed as a "jolly good fellow." The police, he said, were ejecting interrupters for ninety minutes.' . Mr. Thomas expressed delight that Mr. Dulanty, the Irish Free State representative, was present at the New Zealand celebration, and said that the majority of Britona wished Ireland prosperity. Mr. Thomas toasted the Dominions, to which Mr. Howard Ferguson of Canada, and the- Eight Hon. S. M. Bruce, Australia, replied. Mr. Bruce Teferred to Sir Thomas "Wilford's enterprise in. establishing the inaugural New Zealand Day, and added jocularly that'certain Dominions were deemed to have a monopoly of Royal patronage, some even securing Royal Governors-General. "Perhaps it would only be Just," he said, "if Australia also secured a Royal Governor-General." The audience included Lord Jcllicoe and Lord Eutherford, the latter proposing Sir Thomas Wilford's health, i
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 7
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330NEW ZEALAND DAY Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 7
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