SCOTTISH SOCIETY HOLDS BURNS SUPPER
Much of the economic, political and social progress in the last two centuries must be attributed to Robert Burns, said Mr J. Mathison, M.P., proposing the toast “The Immortal Memory” at the first annual Burns supper held by the Scottish Society of New’ Zealand on Tuesday evening.
There had been no greater man in the last 200 years and no man had had a greater influence where the Scottish language was spoken, said Mr Mathison. Burns’s scrupulous honesty and pride in his lowly birth led to much misunderstanding and criticism, but he was a man first and a poet second.
Before the supper the haggis was piped into the room with traditional ceremony, and was addressed by Past Chief Sutherland, after Chief A. Gray had proposed the toast to the King. { The supper was followed by a Scottish concert on a stage decorated with a large illuminated portrait of Burns, the Cross of St Andrew, and the Red Lion of Scotland.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25713, 27 January 1949, Page 3
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