SIR GEORGE REID
TABLETS TO HIS MEMOKiY. Lord Sydenham and Lord Blyth, as chairman and vice-chairman,, respectively, of the executive of the British Empire League, are appealing for funds to creel, a memorial over the gravo of Sir Ocorgo lleid, and for tho placing of memorial tabids in St; Columbus Church, Pont street, end in St. Margaret's Westminster. They remark on his unique political history, as a native of Scotland, who bec-amo in succession Premier of New South Wales, Prime Minister of tho Commonwealth, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, and a member of the House of Commons. Tho High Commissioner for Now Zealand is on the committee. "More than ono Prime Minister of Australia has loomed largo in British public life" (says the "British Australasian"). "Sir George l««d was an institution here, Mr Hughes was an earthquake; and Mr Dcakin was, it appears, offered (in reversion) the biggest position in Parliament next, to that of the Prime Minister—namely, Loader of the Unionist party.''
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10541, 18 March 1920, Page 5
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