VISIT TO HULL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23529, 18 June 1938, Page 26

VISIT TO HULL

BRITAIN’S FIRST DUTY CAPTAIN COOK'S YOUTH (From Oub Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, May 28. The High Commissioner for New Zealand, accompanied by Mr R. S. Forsyth, visited Hull this week primarily to take part in the distribution of prizes awarded in connection with the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board campaign. Mr Jordan and Mr Forsyth were met by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, the Sheriff and Mrs W. Rocketet, the town clerk, and others. At the works of Messrs Reckitt and Sons. Ltd., they were received by Mr Arnold Reckitt. The party motored to the Guildhall, where luncheon was given by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. Most of the items on the menu were New Zealand produce, a Proposing the toast of “The Dominion of New Zealand,” Alderman F. Till, chairman of the Development Committee, claimed that Hull had an older and more personal connection with the Dominion than had any other part of the United Kingdom-Captain Cook, in his youth, served on coastal vessels plying between Hull, Whitby and Newcastle. He also recalled that four years ago the former High Commissioner visited Hull to officiate at the resumption of the direct shipping service between New Zealand and the port* The High Commissioner said Britain’s first duty was to itself, to see that* its producers were prosperous, but Britain could not produce enough mutton to meet its own demands: some 50 per cent, must be imported. They regretted there was so much foreign produce, because foreign was foreign, while New Zealand produce came from their own people. Unemployment had decreased in New Zealand, and they looked forward in the near future to inviting more of their own kith and kin to settle with them. Mr L. L. Gordon, president of the Hull Chamber of Commerce and Shipping, proposed “The City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. and the Sheriff replied. Mr Forsyth presided at the presentation of the Meat Board’s prizes. The Lord Mayor presented the prizes, and himself was the recipient, at the hands of the High Commissioner, of the carcass of a lamb, the gift, said Mr Jordan. of the people of New Zealand.