NEW ZEALAND CLUB
FOR MEMBERS OF FORCES IN LONDON OPENED BY MRS CHURCHILL GENERAL FREYBERG COMMANDS TROOPS. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 9. Mrs Winston Churchill opened the New Zealand Forces Club in London. She recalled her visit tq New Zealand, paid a tribute to the troops whom she had seen training in southern England, and wished the club good luck with the Maori words: Kia Ora. Mr W. J. Jordan welcomes Mrs Churchill, Lord Caldecote. Major-Gen-eral Freyberg. Lady Fergusson, Sir lan Hamilton and diplomatic representatives of Norway and Brazil as well as hundreds of Now Zealand Navy. Army and Aii’ Force members and civilians present. Mr Jordan handed over the club.
General Freyberg expressed satisfaction with the progress of the troops in their training and said they had three full-scale exercises last month. Ono course covered a hundred miles, being six days afoot in full battle equipment.
The ceremony was broadcast to New Zealand. Th club is splendidly equipped. A photograph of Mr P. Fraser is superimposed on a plaque of Signor Mussolini embedded in the concrete entrance hall.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1940, Page 6
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