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GENERAL FREYBERG WELLINGTON WELCOME (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Rising to the feet in a burst of spontaneous cheering, a vast and enthusiastic gathering at the Town Hall gave a fitting welcome to Major-Gen-eral B. C. Freyberg, whose appointment as G.O.C. of the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force has met with approbation throughout Great Britain and New Zealand.
His qualities of leadership, contempt of danger, solicitude for his men and other attributes that have made his exploits in the last conflict almost legendary, were extolled by representatives of the Wellington City Corporation. the Government and the returned soldiers of the Dominion. In the words, of the acting Prime Minister, the Hon. Peter Fraser, they were paying a tribute to a great leader in whom rested the greatest confidence.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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132CHEERED TO ECHO Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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