THRILL FOR SCOTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27291, 18 January 1950, Page 4

THRILL FOR SCOTS

VISIT TO DUNEDIN

SIR ANGUS GILLAN’S COMMENT

It must be a thrill for any Scot to find himself in Dunedin, said the representative of the British Council in the Pacific, Sir Angus Gillan, replying to a welcome to himself and Lady Gillan at a reception in the mayoral rooms of the Municipal Chambers yesterday morning. Few cities, he said, incorporated so much of the Scottish tradition. Sir Angus said that he had not been in Dunedin for more than half an hour before he heard bagpipes. He looked up the “ Mac’s ” in the telephone directory and found that they extended for 1(R columns. In this and in other ways a Scot would find himself very much in a spiritual home in Dunedin.

The speaker added that it was a great joy to him to feel in New Zealand a spirit of partnership in the only league of nations that had ever worked —the British Commonwealth. In that partnership, the Empire would find strength. The Mayor, Sir Donald Cameron, who welcomed the visitors, said that the work which the representatives of the British Council were doing at present was of great value internationally. While he was in Scotland, he saw about 20 Europeans being shown around by a woman member of the council, who was demonstrating to them the British way of life. Interchanges of visits of this nature aid a great deal towards international understanding. , , x ... Sir Donald also welcomed to the reception Bishop Parry, of Alberta, Canada, representing the Roman Catholic Church of America,and the new resident naval officer in Dunedin, Lieutentant-commander M. G. Collins, who arrived from India at the weekend. Both had called on Sir Donald yesterday morning to pay their reSDGCtS The’president of the Dunedin Overseas League, Mr R. H. Stevenson, told Sir Angus and Lady Gillan that the members of the league were always pleased to meet visitors to Dunedin from other parts of the world, as it helped to bind the British Commonwealth together. Anyone who visited the Overseas League in Britain would find that it was doing .a wonderful job. He added that Sir Angus was a member of the Central Council of the league in Britain, and he hoped that he would find on his tour of this country that New Zealand was a most loyal part of the British Empire Sir Angus and Lady Gillan, who will leave Dunedin today for Central Otago and Christchurch, were taken on a tour of the city yesterday afternoon by Cr and Mrs Jolly.