Kate’s Notes: Although this amusing article appeared in the Canberra (Australia) Times, the subject of the article resided in London; hence, the transcript has been placed among the news archives for England. 
    Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate any additional genealogical information for “Mrs. Hugh Gilliland.”

The Canberra Times
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
5 June, 1931

RESTAURANT FOR DOGS

    “Dogs’ dinners. Twopence for small ones. Threepence the large ones. Fourpence the outsizes.” This is the substance of a placard displayed outside a restaurant opened by Mrs. Hugh Gilliland, sister of Viscount Scarsdale, in Kings Road, Chelsea, London.
    Mrs. Gilliland has a screened-off corner where daily she takes her customers’ dogs to dinner. They get only the best English food. Brown bread, raw meat, potatoes, and other vegetables -- these are the chief constituents of a dog’s dinner in the restaurant. “But,” she said, “ there are some mistresses who like their dogs to eat just what they are having themselves, and so we serve them with a cut off the joint.”

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2011