COLD RECEPTION
AUSTRALIAN NAVY ARTICLE IN SYDNEY PAPER (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright) (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. An article headed “Royal Australian Navy gets Chilly Reception” and date-lined Wellington, and appears on the front page of to-day’s “Sydney Daily Telegraph.” It says that fewer than 50 sailors visiting Wellington with the naval squadron were offered entertainment in New Zealand homes, and only six householders offered overnight accommodation. As a result many sailors had nothing to do during the week-end but drink at hotels and stage their own parties in doorways and open spaces. Some slept it off around the grounds of Parliament House. The article concluded: “A cartoonist in the ‘Evening. Post’ expressed the local attitude when he depicted the visitors with girls on their arms while the New Zealand onlooker commented: ‘I dunno. Perhaps its an occupation force —probably thought when they won the Empire Games they’d won us too,’ ” , '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 115, 28 February 1950, Page 3
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150COLD RECEPTION Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 115, 28 February 1950, Page 3
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