STATUS OF CONSULS
REPLY TO RECENT PROTESTS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright (Received May 9, midnight.) CANBERRA, May 9. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Sir George Pearce) stated that the refusal to grant the Consuls in Australia the right to private entree at levees was not discourtesy. Sir George added that Consuls in Australia had no diplomatic status, nor were they given special precedence over local officials at public functions.
Members of the Victorian Consular Corps did not attend the King’s Jubilee levee, which was held at Government House in Melbourne. Their reason was that they were slighted by the treatment received on the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Gloucester, when they had to fight their way into the levee and to take last place in the rank of precedence, such treatment being a breach of national courtesy. Mr D. York Syme, honorary Consul for Japan, and the Italian Consul, attended individually the Jubilee levee
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20104, 10 May 1935, Page 9
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