REMEMBERED WHAKATANE.
INTERLUDE WITH LORD BLEDISLOE LOCAL MAN'S EXPERIENCE In a letter to his parents, c'atedt July describing a Visit to his* birthplace.,. Alvington, Gloucestershire-, England, Mr Fred Smedley,. late Whakatane D.H.S. now Officer, New Zealand Navy, writes:* "AVe arrived in Sydney at 'i p.m. ,1 took a taxi to the Feathers Hotel. On stepping out ol' the. taxi, .someone tapped me on the shoulder aniL. said. "Good old New Zealand,"' Iti was Lord Bledisloe who happened* to be passing just then with Lady Bledisloe. He asked me my name# and where I came frofn. He remembered W hakatane well.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 4, 3 September 1943, Page 5
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100REMEMBERED WHAKATANE. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 4, 3 September 1943, Page 5
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