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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26544, 20 August 1947, Page 6

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THE FIERY CROSS PERMISSION BEING SOUGHT CONSIDERED LOGICAL PLACE Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, Aug. 19. The traditional Scottish emblem, the fiery cross, which is now in Wellington, will be taken to Dunedin if Dunedin Scotsmen wish to receive it. Mr H. Digby Roberts, public relations officer for the United Kingdom High Commissioner at Wellington, told the Daily Times representative' to-day that he was anxious to make contact with the Council of Scottish Societies in Dunedin to discuss a proposition that the fiery cross should visit Dunedin as the hornet of Scotsmen in New Zealand. He said also that he had despatched a message to London inquiring w'hether the cross could be retained, if desired, in New Zealand. If it could, then Dunedin would seem its logical place. Mr Roberts said that the despatch of the fiery cross from Scotland had been organised by the Council of Industrial Design at Edinburgh. The council had apparently tried to organise the journey of the emblem through New Zealand direct from Edinburgh and had communicated with individual Scotsmen in various parts of the Dominion. There would be ample time for Dunedin to arrange appropriate ceremonies, as the cross would remain in Wellington till Friday or Saturday, when it would travel to Christchurch. The Christchurch Scotsmen wanted to have it till next Tuesday. If Dunedin desired to make arrangements, he could see that the fiery cross was taken there. The cross will be taken to Christchurch by Mr J. Mathison, M.P., whose brother, Mr W. H. Mathison, will receive it on behalf of the Scottish societies.