FLAGS ENTWINED.
UNIQUE CEREMONY. AT WELLINGTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. 'Wellington, Midnight. Ihere was quite a unique ceremony - ' at the Grand Opera House this evenin" when the Hon. A. L. Herdman, Minister of Justice, presented Mr. Niblo tha ' principal American comedian in the J. C Williamson Comedy Company, with the national flags of New Zealand and America, bound together, as a recognition of the efforts of himself and the company in accelerating the collection of funds towards New Zealand's war enest M' ' Herdman, in a .happy speech, stated that he had pleasure in making the presentation as a Minister of the Crown, and hoped that the two countries would always bn as indissolubly bound together as the two flags he was presenting. Tha Mayor also spoke appreciatively from I the statge, and the Lady Mayoress pre- [ sented Miss Cohan with a handsome bouI quet. The proceedings aroused immense I enthusiasm.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 76, 19 August 1914, Page 4
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149FLAGS ENTWINED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 76, 19 August 1914, Page 4
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