ANZAC DAY GREETINGS
RECEIVED FROM GENERAL FREYBERG AND OTHER GREAT WAR COMMANDERS. R.S.A. PRESIDENT’REPLIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Anzac Day greetings have been received by the New Zealand R.S.A. from Major-General Frcybcrg. V.C.. commander of the Expeditionary Force. He says: "The spirit of Anzac will never die and the Second Now Zealand Expeditionary Force will not. forget their magnificent example. Wreaths are being laid in the War Memorial Cemeteries." The Hon. W. Perry, Dominion President of the R.S.A.. has replied: “Old members of the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force welcome your inspiring message from the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and express a complete conviction that the traditions of Anzac are in safe keeping in the hands of the new armies of Australia and New Zealand.”
Messages from General Sir Alexander Gcdley, Field-Marshal Birdwood, General Sir lan Hamilton and the Dominion President of the British Empire Service League and from South Africa were also received.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1940, Page 8
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157ANZAC DAY GREETINGS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1940, Page 8
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