DUNEDIN PRAISED
BRITISH SHIP’S MASTER TRIBUTE TO WATERSIDERS “ Everywhere in Dunedin we have met with extreme courtesy and kindness from the community. The shop assistants give ‘ service with a smile,’ and the young lady in an optician’s shop who returned a small job with the words, * No charge, thank you,’ will long remain in my memory as typical of the attitude shown towards us during our stay here. We enjoyed having a few of the children of Dunedin on board our ship, and wish only that we could have seen more of them.” In this fashion Captain Warwick Furneaux, master of the British ship Fort Grant, expressed his own and his crew's appreciation of their stay in Dunedin in a letter to the Daily Times before the ship sailed on Saturday. Captain Furneaux referred to the work being done by the Navy League and Mr P. Barling in sending foodstuffs to the people of Britain. “ May I also give a word of praise to the shipping agents and waterside workers at this port?” he said. “Their work is the best we have seen so far in New Zealand. It has been a pleasure to come to your lovely city.” The Fort Grant arrived here via Auckland, Wellington and Lyttelton, and sailed on Saturday afternoon for Bluff.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26638, 8 December 1947, Page 4
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216DUNEDIN PRAISED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26638, 8 December 1947, Page 4
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