SIR GEORGE REID.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9996, 17 March 1910, Page 5

SIR GEORGE REID.

BANQUETTED BY COLONIAL INSTITUTE. BRILLIANT GATHERING.,, "THE CALL OF PUBLIC DUTY." Received March 16. 12.21 p.m. LUNDOin, March 15. A banquet was tendered Sir George Reid, Australian High Commisisouer, by the Royal Colonial Institute. There were 278 guests, the gathering being a brilliant and representative one. Among those present were the Earl of Rosebery; the Earl of Beauchamp, an ex-Governor of New South Wales; Admiral Sir Harrv Rawson, also an ex-Governor of New South Wales; Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada; the Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade; Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, ex Governor of Australia; the Earl of Ranfurly, ex-Governor of New Zealand; Major-General Sir Reginald Talbot, ex-Governor of Victoria* the Hon. N. J. Moore, Premier of Western Australia; Mr Bidford; the Right Hon. Herbert Samuel, PostmasterGeneral ; Admiral Sir Nathaniel Bow-den-Smitb, one time Commander-in-Chief of the Australian station; Sir Charles Lucas, of the Colonial Office; and Mr A. A, Pearson, also of the Colonial Office.

The Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, presided. He proposed Sir George Reid's health, and welcomed him as a statesman of long and varied experience, a skilful, accomplished orator, and a tnorough man of affairs.

Sir George Reid, who was given an enthusiastic receptior, made a brilliant speech. He said he thought it his duty to put aside private sorrow in order to obey the call of public duty. He thanked Lord Crewe for the honour done him by presiding at the banquet.