VISIT TO WELLINGTON
MADE BY ACHILLES MEN MARCH THROUGH DECORATED STREETS. JOURNEY FROM AUCKLAND IN SPECIAL TRAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A special train, carrying 20 officers, 400 men and the ship’s band of H.M.S. Achilles, arrived in Wellington at 7.37. The weather is perfect,, after rain overnight. The city is fittingly decorated and large crowds lined the streets when the men marched to Cambridge Terrace. Soon after their arrival the men visited an overseas ship in port and were entertained at breakfast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 5
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85VISIT TO WELLINGTON Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 5
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