OVERSEAS DELEGATES.
BANQUET AND RECEPTION
A BRILLIANT FUNCTION
(Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.)
LONDON, June 15.
Captain J. Boyd-Carpenter banquetted the overseas Ministers in the Connaught rooms. The Hon. Mr Pearce, Commonwealth Minister of Defence, responding to the toast of "The Dominions," said that the surest way to avoid militarism and jingoism was to make every citizen a soldier. Australia did not believe it was manly to allow England to always bear the burden of the Colonies.
Sir William Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, also spoke. The Primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mi's Davidson gave a reception to the overseas delegates at Lambeth Palace.
There were one thousand present, including the Duchess of Albany, the Duke aridThichess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Lord and Lady Crewe, Lord and Lady Portsmouth. Lords Boherts. Kitchener, and.. Rosebury, and Lord and Lady Esher;
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10264, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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141OVERSEAS DELEGATES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10264, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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