Sir Hugh Denison Resigns His Office

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 1

Sir Hugh Denison Resigns His Office

COMMISSIONER IN U.S. “INADEQUATE RECOGNITION” By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 10.57 a.m. CANBERRA, To-day. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, announced that Sir Hugh Denison, Commissioner for Australia in the United States, had resigned. The reason is believed to be that the office was inadequately recognised in America. —A. and N.Z. I'.ir 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 managingdirector of the Sun Newspaper Company, of Sydney. He was born at Forbes in 1865, and went to school at Scots College, finishing :education at Prince Alfred College, A t laide, and University College, London, iit- 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 Ex-, hibition. He recently assailed Mr. William Thompson, Chicago’s anti-British Mayor, and he attacked the narrow vision of Senator Borah.