SPIRIT OF LONDONERS
ORDEAL CHEERFULLY FACED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 16. The New Zealand office in Wellington of a firm of insurance brokers has received from its London office a cablegram which admirably expresses the spirit in which the people of London are taking the, terrific hammering which is being dealt them at the present time.
Last Thursday a cable message from the London office of the firm advised that the building in which they were situated, only about 30 yards from the City end of London bridge, had been totally destroyed. The manager in New Zealand immediately cabled the managing director of the London office expressing from the whole of the organisation in New Zealand sympathy and gratitude that the whole of the London staff was safe. The message concluded by asking: “ How can we assist you? ”
This morning an answering cablegram, lodged in London on Saturday, advised that the London office was already reorganising. Its records are safe, and the staff had moved to a new address. The reply concludes: “You can only assist in the capacity of navvy work; all cheerful.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24405, 17 September 1940, Page 8
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186SPIRIT OF LONDONERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24405, 17 September 1940, Page 8
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