FAMOUS MEN
"In the course of 21 years absence from New Zealand I heard no speaker who could come up to the late Mr T. E. Taylor," said Mr P. M. B. Fisher, in an address on "Famous Men" to the Business Men's Club at a luncheon gathering in Christchurch on Monday. At one dinner attended by him, said Mr Fisher, Lord Reading said he was in a position to know that the war could not last another six months. It was just after the evacuation of Gallipoli. Lord Kitchener, asked by the speaker why he had predicted a five-years' war, replied: "Because so many fools have been saying it will be over in a few months that I find it hard to get men and munitions." Mr Fisher said he was friendly with Lord Birkenhead, who never failed to back him in his political campaign. He was a great man and a great friend. The speaker saw him *'run the bank" 10 times in the Casino at Cannes. On one occasion, said Mr Fislier, he heard Rudyard Kipling recite several unpublished poems, some of which would possibly never be published.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22834, 19 March 1936, Page 2
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