AUSTRALIA AND U.S.A.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 5 December 1927, Page 5

AUSTRALIA AND U.S.A.

DENISON’S RESIGNATION RANK OF REPRESENTATIVE. (Received 5, 9.25 a.m.) New York, Dec. 8. The New York “World” prints the following from the “Washington Dispatch”: The statement of Sir Hugh Denison, coincident with his resignation as Commissioner, that he would submit recommendations ♦<- the Hon. 8. M. Bruce, as a result of which the entire system of representation in the United States may be revised,

was interpreted in diplomatic quarters here to-day as signifying that a move will be mad; to have Australia represented in the United States by a Minister, following the example of Canada and the Irish Free State. Sir Hugh Denison has

informed friends in Washington on several occasions that he expected his Government to appoint an Envoy with the rank of Minister to this country, and it was even reported that assurance had been given him prior to his assuming his post as Commissioner, that he would be elevated to that rank in th" not distant future. Sir Hugh Denison is noted for his outspokenness. For a long time before he accepted the appointment of Commissioner for Australia in the United States he was prominently associated with the newspaper world, and was managing-director of the Sun Newspaper Company, of Sydney. He was born at Forbes in 1865, and went to school at Scots College, finishing his education at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and University College, London. He joined his father, a well-known Adelaide tobacco manufacturer, controlling the firm of Robert Dixson and Co. At 23 years of age he was an alderman of Adelaide. With the merging of his business into the British Tobacco Company (Australia), Ltd., in 1904, he became managing-director of that firm, and also a director of Messrs. W. D. and H. O. Wills, removing to Sydney that year in this connection. Sir Hugh Denison is intensely patriotic, and has made large monetary gifts for various purposes. He was made a Knight of the British Empire in 1923, and the following year he represented New South Wales at the Wembley Exhibition. He recently assailed Mr. William Thompson, Chicago’s anti-British Mayor, and. he attacked the narrow vision of Senator Borah.