GENERAL BIRDWOOD.
' ARRIVAL AT WELLfifQTON. CIVIC RECEPTION TO-DAY. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. General Sir William Birdwood arrived in Wellington from Sydney this evening, accompanied by Lady Birdwood and Misi Joan Birdwood. An official party, including the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. Q. J. Anderson), Major-General Sir E. W. C. Chaytor, and Brigadier-General Q. S, Richardson, boarded the Manuka in the stream from a motor launch, and extended a welcome to General Birdwood on behalf.of the Government and the Defence forces of the Dominion. The President of the Returned Soldiers' Allocution (Dr. Boxer) also welcomed the General on behalf of the returned men, and exitended to him an invitation to Attend the conference now being held in Wellington. General Birdwood makes it clear that he is paying merely a holiday visit to New Zealand. He hopes f> meet at many as possible of the Anzac men, but he is not making in any sense a formal tour. A civic reception will he accorded hia to-morrow evening,
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1920, Page 4
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169GENERAL BIRDWOOD. Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1920, Page 4
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