U.S. NAVAL ATTACHE LEAVING NEW ZEALAND
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WELLINGTON, Aug. 25. The United States Navy Department, primarily for budgetary reasons, is discontinuing the post of Naval Attache in New Zealand, which sjnce October, 1946, has been held by Commander Morgan Slayton, who has now been appointed Assigtant Senior Naval Attache and Assistant Naval Attache for Air in China, and wiil be stationed at Shanghai. He wiil leave by air for Honolulu on September 16, and then travel by naval transport to Shanghai. Commander Slayton stated that it was appreciated that such a close liaison existed between the United States and New Zealand that naval matters could be handled easily without the necessity for maintaining a naval attache in this coimtry. "I am leaving New Zealand with deep regret," he said. "Apart fromfche beauty of this country, which has made an ineffaceable impression upon me; I have not known any people who have been more warm hearted and hospitabie."
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 August 1947, Page 4
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