Sir Henry Scott Entertained
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by Pacific Is. Club
6O guests, representing Government and commercial interests in the South Seas, attended a luncheon in honour of Sir Henry Milne Scott, K.C., of Suva, and Lady Scott, given by the Pacific Islands Club at the Hotel Carlton in Sydney on August 26.
Among those present were the Consul for Italy, feir Charles Rosenthal (the new Administrator of Norfolk Island), Hon.
Gerald Hogan .(Crown Law Officer in New Guinea), directors of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd., Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Dalgety and Co., Lever’s Pacific Plan tations Ltd., Mr. H. A. Bentley (Ocean Island), Mr. Thomas Horne (Suva).
Sir Henry, who was Fiji’s senior offi cial representative at the Coronation, spoke of his impressions of that historic occasion. In his description of the cere mony and subsequent events, he gave a fund of little human incidents concern ing the Royal Family, the great, cheerful London crowds with their loyal and sin cere devotion for the King and Quden,
and that pillar of commonsense the English “bobby.”
The foremost impression of his visit to Europe, declared Sir Henry, was that Britain, under Neville Chamberlain, is, and for a long time will be, the best pos sible bulwark for world peace.
Mr. W. Taylor, N.Z. Government Trade and Tourist Commissioner, presided over the gathering.
Sir Henry and Lady Scott left Sydney for Suva by the Niagara on September 2.