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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23529, 18 June 1938, Page 21

HONOURABLE COLD BOILED RICE Another diplomat who is said to have mislaid one of his possessions, not an article of apparel this time, is the Japanese Ambassador. A lady returning to an old mill house where she spends week-ends, found a large, well-wrapped box in the garden. It contained cold boiled, rice. Inquiring. she found that in her absence several huge cars had arrived. Oul had stepped a number of Oriental personages, and liveried servants In the course of two and a-half hours a fine picnic meal was enjoyed, while any polite remonstrance was met with a suave explanation that everything was all right, because it was the Japanese Ambassador. . When a secretary at the Japanese Embassy was informed that one large packet of cold rice had been left behind, he was greatly pleased with the news. He asked that it be forwarded!