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NEW ZEALAND FORCES CLUB IN CAIRO GRATITUDE TO DONORS. EXPRESSED BY GENERAL FREYBERG. (.From the Official War Correspondent with the N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East). CAIRO. February 5. Gratitude for the generosity of the New Zealand public whose contributions to patriotic funds had made the club possible was expressed by MajorGeneral at the opening today of the New Zealand Forces Club in Cairo, He added that he hoped the club would be a home away from home because New Zealand beer, tobacco, butter, jam. honey, mutton and lamb and perhaps even tinned oysters were likely to bo available shortly. He paid a warm tribute to the kindness of Britons in Cairo, who had so generously accommodated New Zealanders at various services institutions till they had a club of their own.
Lady Wavell, declaring the club open spoke of her pleasure at seeing premises which as a Fascist club had been dedicated once to Mussolini's cult of terror become a place where free men of the Empire would gather as their fathers did in another war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 4
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178HOME FROM HOME Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 4
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