JUDGE'S ADMISSION.
SHOW PLACES OF LONDON.
His ignorance of London was the subject of a frank admission by Mr. Justice Eve at the recent coming of age dinner of the London Society. . He confessed that although born >" just outside the city walls in the genteel neighbourhood of Finsbury Circus over 70 years ago," he knew very little about -London. He had never seen the interior of: — National Gallery. Mint. National Portrait Dunk of England. Gallery. ' Tower. Tnte Gallery. Famous Draper? British Museum. Houses. Mudauie Tussaud's. Mr. Justice Eve mentioned that he hud never heard an opera or a classical concert, and had not been to a theatre cr a cinema a dozen times in his life. He had onlv visited St. on a monial occasion. " I g° r nirt j l . 7* added, "and confess that 1 & dorse the feeling of the clc^^ a d 2 ' The- Private Secretary u> o&yiag, I don't like London.' "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20300, 6 July 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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155JUDGE'S ADMISSION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20300, 6 July 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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