ENGLISH HOSPITALITY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 11

ENGLISH HOSPITALITY

N.Z. JUDGE’S PRAISE LONDON, Nov. 10. “I leave London this week on my return voyage ,to New Zealand, after spending several months' vacation both in England and in nty boyhood ’s home beyond the Tweed,” writes Mr. Justice MacGregor in the London Times. 1 ‘ Bef tire my departure, I should like to express in your columns my gratitude alitl thanks for tile exceeding kindness and eolirtcsy which my family and myself have experienced throughout our sojourn in Great Britain. Wherever we went we were received, as New Zealanders, with hospitality of a most gracious nature; on courses too numerous to specify I was treated with generous consideration by ihy fellow-golfers; eminent members of Bench and Bar alike have extended flic right, hand of fellowship to me—an obscure Colonial judge. Front iny kindly, reception at the Privy Council itself I have learned, by perspnhl experience, that the judicial Committee, ns now constituted, is still a real, effective bond of Empire. In short, the broad impression that remains on my mind of England and its people is one of uniform courtesy —of ‘urbfthitv’ in its widest and truest sense!

“The Imperial Conference is not yet over. Whatever may he the ultimate fate of Colonial preference, however, one New Zealand family -at, least gratefully realises that it has already received more than its quota in hospitality and kindness from the M Other Country.”