Bringing to a close a difficult ten-month term of service as Consul-General Mr. Suemasa Okamoto will leave here for Japan to-day in the s. Nagasaki Maru.
On Saturday, Mr. Okamoto, who has been appointed Counsellor to the Japanese Embassy in London, was the guest of honour at a banquet given at the Japanese Club by local consular, military and naval officials and civic leaders.
Among the hosts, local Japanese newspapers reported, were Mr. Shinrokuro Hidaka, the newly appointed Consul-General; Mr. Masusaburo Amano, President of the Japanese Residents' Corporation; and Mr. Shuhei Tajima, Chief of the Consular Police, Lands in New Zealand After Taking Off for England
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