Lunching With a Sultan

Radio Record, 3 July 1936, Page 24

Lunching With a Sultan

a aa a ae Johore Bahru At present travelling in the East is Margaret Macpherson, well-known writer and frequent contributor, . to the "Radio Record." Writing to the paper she says: "I have been the guest of a real live monarch-the Sultan of Johore. Staying in Malaysia I decided to write to the Sultan and he résponded by lending me his car and his aide de camp to go all over Johore Bahru and see everything, and I ended by having luicheon with the Sultan at his palace. He gave me three lovely books on Johore, all inscribed and sealed with the royal arms, and he gave me three photographs of himself inscribed ‘To Margaret Macpherson," He is the potentate, you: may remember, who gave a cool half million, just as if it were'a China orange, to the late King-as a jubilee present to be used for the strengthening of Singapore." Margaret Macpherson at 1 IE I I | yar a a Oa