PARTY IN LONDON
NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER Sir Harry and Lad'* Batterbee were srucsls at a sherry party of the New Zealand Croup of the Overseas League. las! evening, writes a London correspondent on January *26. They are leaving for Wellington on February 2 by the Rangitata, with their domestic staff. Among those present were -Mr \V. J. Jordan, Col. S. ff Laseelles, Viscount Hampden, Mrs E. S. llarston and Mrs L. Levien. Mr Jordan hoped that Sir Ilarry and Lady 'Batterbee would meet with the same friendship in New Zealand as had been accorded to himself and Mrs Jordan over here—he could not say more. Sir Harry said he was not going to a strange country for he had very happy recollections of his visit when tie accompanied the King and Queen —then Duke and Duchess of York—to New Zealand, and he felt quite sure that he and his wife would feel thor•'uglily at home. He was glad to say that Lady Batterbee had made a splendid recovery from her illness.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 3
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171PARTY IN LONDON Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 3
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