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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4361, 4 January 1922, Page 2

One thing the European Continental nations can do better than the clumsy British is to perform a courteous act tipn with the little touch that make.-, it‘stick pleasantly in the memory. Mr W. T. Jennings, M.P., tells how he was proceeding by train to Switzerland from Italy, and, at the frontier the usual Customs examination' was held.,His luggage was passed without trouble, and then the two Swiss uniformed officials espied a small package of his, and suggested that they would like it opened. Mr Jennings removed the paper and opened the small cardboard box, disclosing two wreaths which he was carrying witn him to place on his sons’ graves, and explained what they were for. The two men, without a word, came giavely to attention, clicked their heels, saluted him, and turned their attend tion to the other passengers. A British official would have felt just as sympathetic inwardly, no doubt, but Mr Jennings would have had no little incident tp remember.