HANDS ACROSS THE SEA

Shannon News, 24 April 1928, Page 2

HANDS ACROSS THE SEA

fraternal greetings.

LEEDS AND CHRISTCHURCH.

LONDON, Jan. 17,

The Yorkshire Post recently gave an account of the exchange of fraternal greetings between Bradford and its namesake towns in Ontario, Canada and Victoria, Australia. The Lord Mayor of Bradford, in an interview, suggested that the Lord Mayor of Leeds might send fraternal greetings to the Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, in view of the fact that large numbers of Leeds ppople have gone out to settle in that New Zealand city. Lieut.-Colonel Erie Murray, seere tary of the British Empire League, writes to the Yokshire Post, and intimates that the League would gladly weleofne such a step, or, he says, “It was recognised by those responsible for putting .this movement forward, that,' while exchanges between namesake towns possessed great sentiment, there must bo numerous instances of mutual links existing between cities and towns bearing different names. “In all probability the Lord Mayor of Bradford can point to several places in tho British Einpiro to which appreciable numbers of Bradford people have migrated in the past, to whose Mayor a greeting of friendship from Bradford City would do much to ce ment the tics of kinship and pave the way for future settlers. The officials in the office of tho High Commissioner for New Zealand in London expressed the warmest approval of tho suggested interchange of greetings between Leeds, England, and Christchurch, New Zealand.”