HAS FED KINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 856, 27 December 1929, Page 2

HAS FED KINGS

Man Who Planned V.C.’s Dinner KNOWS HIS GASTRONOMICS Mr. Reginald. C. Vaughan, who prepared the Prince's dinner to th# V.C.’s at the House of Lords recentlyhas been the comptroller of the Honsi of Lords refreshment department tor 10 years. He has come in contact with flu kings—the late King Edward, King George, the King of the Belgians, thi King of Spain, and the ex-Kaiser. H# knows the dishes for which varinu members of the Royal Family haiei weakness, the kind of steak that Mi. Lloyd George likes, and what tickles the palates of our most famous li* lords. When Mr. Lloyd George, then Premier, was recovering from ft illness at Gairloch, in the wilds of Ross and Cromarty, in 1921, the Prime Minister's party discovered that the loci butcher only killed a sheep as demsu arose. 50 Miles for Beef “Send for Mr. Vaughan,” said Bn Lloyd George, with inspiration. He duly arrived. “X found that for beef and steals 1 had to fall back on Dingwall, K miles away. We engaged the locs photographer as the sea fisherman® the Premier, and I was able to get a barber at Inverness with abilities On; met with Mr. Lloyd George’s ap proval,” said Mr. Vaughan to a Pressman. “We were cooking meals for M people at times, but we had no s* 3 stove. However, I knew the Premier's tastes, for I had run houses tx him at Danny Park and Great W stead in Sussex during the war." Mr. Vaughan was also response for the House of Lords banquet t c the King in 1920—the first time in years that a monarch was so enteitained. A more recent experience was ientertainment at his model farm 8 | Bushbury, near Blackboys, Sussexf Cabinet Ministers and several undssecretaries who were attending tki Socialist Party Conference ® Brighton. “I was first a manager of at Hunstanton when I was 24. I * now 55,” he said. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are be within range of the undermentw B*' 8 *' wireless stations tonight:— Auckland.—Aorangi, Rangitata, ****?£ nui, Armadale, Golden Coa*t. Sierra, Kalingo, Saltersgate, r»oEsios, Stathatos. Chatham Islands: Cumberland. Wellington: Maori, Wahine. Tasnilg; Arahura, Rimutaka, Niagara, cruachan, Cambridge, Marama. Awarua: Sir J. C. Ross. C. i- -2k Southern Princess. Kosmos, 9 ,88 Tahiti, Maheno, Hinemoa. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVALS YESTERDAY HOKIANGA (8 p.m.), 271 tonf, » e ne dy, from Hokianga. ARAPAWA is laying up for » V’ 8 ; • HAUTURU is to be ,. Raglan, Kawhia and Waikato R noon tomorrow*. • last I HOKIANGA, which arrived e» froxxi Hokianga, is announced the return trip at 11 a.m. «? XGAPUHI is scheduled New Plymouth at 4 o clock this OREPFKT, which arrived on .“nierM Day from Dargaville. is to Co*” afternoon for Nelson and ' ports of the South Island.