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COMMONWEALTH
CLUB.
EMPIRE COMMISSION
ENTERTAINED.
INSPIRING ADDRESSES.
The Commonwealth Club lun from tinrf
to time entertained many notable visitors
to this Stufe. and 011 Wednesday the mem
bers of the Empire Trade Commission, were .
the guests cf the club at .1 luncheon, frr
which the banqueting room of the Ade
laide-Town Hall wa*. engaged. There was
an attendance of 170. Sir Edgar Vincent
(chairman or the Commission) -was pre
vented by indisposition from attending. Sir
John Downer (president of the club) pre
sided for the first time at a luncheon of
the clyb. On his right were'the Hon. G
'£. Foster (Canada), the Commissioner of
Ciown Lan.ts (Hon. F. W. Young), ilr,
Donald Campbell (Australia)- Mr. W. B.
Wilkinson (vii-e-president or thr club J,
Mr. E. J. Harding (secretary of the Com
mission), Mr. S.IL Skipper (secretary of
the club), and Mr. Y. H. Evan; <md'on the
left, W. Lorimer (Scotland), the Aixorney
General (Hon. H. Hamburg). isir Charles
Goode^ and Dr. L. W. Bickle.
Sir John Downer'e Speech.
fSir John Downer, speaking of the ob
ject with which the club had been es
tablished. said they could not claim origi
nality in the matter of their existence.
becaut=e the idea came from Canada
(Applause.) That wa- their foundation,
and by Canada's reflection they had been
created. He hoped be had placed their
position bpfore their friend. Mr. Foster,
with becoming humility. (Laughter and
applause.) Tuey followed the traditions
of Canada, quite agreeing that in thefe
day». when things were done -o extrava
gantly, much human communion was lost
through the elaborations of the details De
cenary to ensure it. (Laughter and ap
plause.) They had established those re- -
ceptions—indifferent lunches and kindly
feelings—to try and make the substance
the matter rather than the .form, and to
give an opportunity to t'uo^, who wit-hed
-o £0 do to meet the distinguished men,
who from time to time happened to
visit these >hore—without eia'ooi at ion,
without extravagance, without leaving in
th"ir mindt> an unpleasant impression thai
they had been the cause of tueir lut-ti/
putting tJiemsc-lvcf to any very (on.Mvlcrr
able inconvenience. It wa-< from that
point of view tnat he. .is their pra-ident
for the time being, wa.- able to extend
a very .bearty welcome to the visitors of
the elnb thar day.
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(Applause.)
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