4 JULY 1925, Page 11

On Monday last, the King, accompanied by the Queen, 'declared

open the new offices of the Canadian Govern- ment. The building of Sir Robert Smirke which forms the western side of Trafalgar Square, and was known for so long by Civil Servants and others as the Union Club, has been taken over and adapted for the use of the High Commissioner, for emigration offices and the scores of other purposes for which each great Dominion now finds it necessary to have a central place of business in London. At the request of Mr. Larkin, the High Commissioner, His Majesty unlocked the door and declared the building open in a speech of congratulation and good wishes in which he spoke for the whole Empire at home and overseas. *