SECESSION MOVE
WESTRALIANS ENTERTAINED
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON, November 8
.“No secession speeches” wa s the implied order of the chairman, Mr John Agnew, when proposing the toast of “our guests” at a. dinner to the secession delegates of Western Australia, whiejh was given by mining companies here. Mr Mncallum Smith, in responding, referred to the bad old days when rich gold specimens, were dispatched to London, where they served to float different com pinnies. He contrasted those days with the present time when company flotations were not sanctioned without scientific investigation. Mr Macallum Smith said he would give the English investors a tip that a great revival on the goldfields is pending. The speaker managed to make several oblique references to the delegates’s mission, saying that they had made uo their mind s to remain in London until they had achieved their objective. Mr P. R. Hamilton, in proposing the toast of Western Australia, retorted: “I don’t know when you will get away i n view of that resolution !” Sir A. Colohntch also responded
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1934, Page 5
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