WARMLY WELCOMED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1941, Page 4

WARMLY WELCOMED

NEW ZEALAND PREMIER

IN SCOTLAND.

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 29.

The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, yesterday morning toured the docks and shipbuilding yards of Glasgow, where he was enthusiasticaly welcomed. He was greeted by a boyhood friend, Mr Brewster, now a leading engineer. A meipber of the House of Commons, Mr D. Kirkwood, in the afternoon escorted Mr Fraser through the blitzed areas.

At Greenock, Mr Fraser met two New Zealand officers and eight New Zealand men attached to the navy. Later Mr Fraser, at a civic reception in Paisley, presented the Provost with a photograph taken in Egypt of an ambulance presented by Paisley citizens to the New Zealand forces. Mr Fraser thanked the Paisley people for the gift, and added that New Zealanders were proud of the gift as they were proud to fight against Hitler. Mr Fraser afterward visited the headquarters of the Scottish Co-opera-tives, where he was presented with costume and suit lengths and a casket containing souvenirs. Mr Fraser was the guest of Sir Steven' Bilsland. Later the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mr P. J. Dollan, and the commanders and officers of the local defence forces, tendered a reception to Mr Fraser, who told the epic story of the New Zealanders’ part in the Battle of Crete.