TIMES WERE HARD.
Prime Minister And King's Doctor Hard Up.
FORMER MEETING RECALLED
(Received U a.m.) LONDON, November 22. '•During my first visit to Buckingham Palace," declared Mr. Ramsay MacDonald at the Royal Society of Medicine banquet, "while I was -dazzled by the brilliant uniforms, I noticed a man whose dignity indicated that he had been born there. He asked me if I remembered him. •
"When I replied in the negative he reminded me that years ago a medical student and myself went out together into Gower Street after- a most respectable dinner. Looking at me anxiously, he asked, 'How much have you got?' I glanced hurriedly at my feAv odd coppers and replied, 'How much have you got?' "Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking to Holloway station. Who could have forecasted that we would not meet again-until we were the King's guests? He was Lord Dawson, the King's Physician."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 278, 23 November 1929, Page 12
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154TIMES WERE HARD. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 278, 23 November 1929, Page 12
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