HOSPITALITY OFFERED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 355, 9 February 1937, Page 5

HOSPITALITY OFFERED

THE WOODEN SPOON. WENT TO ENGLAND. Responsibility Of Britons To Help Visitors. Press Association—Copyright. London, February 8. “The United Kingdom for a long time has held unchallenged the wooden spoon for hospitality among the Anglo-Saxon nations; the coronation will provide a first-class opportunity for the display of a little forethought and imagination in losing it,’ says the Times in an editorial artile entitled “Entertaining the Empire.” “Britons now have the opportunity of returning the hospitality which every travelled Briton has enjoyed throughout the Empire and which, with rare exceptions, has’ not been returned in equal measure,” the article adds. “Morfeover, ordinary generosity, apart from a natural wish to make a good impression, lays a definite responsibility on every Briton with leisure and means to help the visitors to enjoy themselves, especially as many from the Antipodes' will be visiting ‘home’ for the first time.” The Times contends that while the more distinguished guests’ will have a full share of the ceremonials, official entertajinmeni|s, banquets and court balls, there are other things’ to be done, for those who have friends overseas can entertain them or their friends, while those lacking overseas’ acquaintances can obtain names from various Empire societies, sporting clubs, particularly golf clubs, jockey clubs and social clubs, and can perhaps’ offer temporary membership. “The main principle,” the Times adds, “is to establish at this early date an obligation to give ungrudgingly the hospitality which would be afforded Britons in similar circumstances throughout the Empire.”