UNKNOWN FREEMAN
ENGLISH »>LAYOR APOLOGISES. LONDON, September 12. “Have you seen Air VV. M. iHughes?” That question was the first intimation that the Mayor of Gravesend had that the only .living Freeni.n of .the city was on a visit to it. The Mayor was .much distres s'd when he learned that Mr Hughe.', dr.', of the only two Freeman that Grave:, end has had since the Middle Ages, had. had .a shock yesterday when, aftei ! arriving in the town unnoticed, a imidyat ihe hotel insisted on his signing thel aliens’ register. The'-'Visitor at first protested that he was ..not an alien, but. the maic ' wouldn’t listen to him, and, with a chuckle,'; he signed; il:On it being pointed out to the • Mayor that a® s° many- Australian Unera dock across the river nobody in Gravesend could be justified in assuming that .Sydney was a port in a foreign country, the Mayor said he would apologise to Mr Hughes, and would instruct the town clerk to arrange that he does not depart unhonourfed pnd unsung.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1932, Page 8
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174UNKNOWN FREEMAN Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1932, Page 8
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