MESSAGES EXCHANGED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 81, 29 December 1937, Page 8

MESSAGES EXCHANGED

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Governors-General of New Zealand and Australia CENTAURUS BRINGS LETTER

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AUCKLAND, Dec. 28. The following letter has been received by the Governor-General from the Governor-General of Australia: — Government House, Canberra, Deeember 21, 1937. My Dear Governor-General — It is a great pleasure to me to forward by the Empire flying-boat Cen- > taurur to your Excellency a message of gocdwill and affection from the people of this Commonwealth to those of our sister Dominion. New Zealand. Although the forthcoming flight of ihe Centaurus may be regardad as in the nature of a survey flight, its objective is to brlng nearer to hand the inaugu ration of an Empire flying-boat service between our two great Dominio^s. I trust that the New Year and each year which follows may bring to your Excellency's Dominion and to the Commonwealth happiness. prosperity, and peace. Yours sincerely, (Signed) Gowrie. His Excellency, Lord Galway, has replied as follows: — My Dear Governor-General — It was most gratifying to me, as Governor-General of New Zealand, to receive your message of goodwill and affection from the people of the Commonwealth on the occasion of the flight of the Centaurus from the Mother Country to New Zealand, via Australia. I can assure you that the landing yesterday was ample proof to all who saw it that an Empire flying-boat service between England, Australia afd New Zealand is to all -intents and purposes an accomplished fact. I most cordially reciprocate your good wishes for New Year. It will be my pleasure at all times to co-operate with your Excellency for the good of His Majesty's service in these portions of his Dominions. Yours sincerely, (Signed) Galway. Letter to Mr Savage. The following letter from the Prime Minister of Australia to the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage was brought to Auckland by the Centaurus:— "My Dear Mr Savage, — „ "It is with very great pleasure that I am availing myself of the opportunity given by the flight of the Empire fly-ing-boat Centaurus to send through you greetings from the people of Australia to the people of New Zealand. This flight will bring our two countries even closer together than they have been in the past, and since it is the first praetical step toward the establishment of a regular flying^ service across the Tasman it marks an epoch in the relations between the two countries. "I am, yours sincerely, "J. A. LYONS."