GREETINGS TO THE FORCES
specially compiled "For the Forces" was presented over all the ZB stations on Christmas Day, many well known personalities, including the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, coming to the microphone to extend greetings both to returned soldiers and to those serving at the present time. A NOTABLE programme, The first speaker was Captain J. J. Clark, ex-Dominion President of the South African War Veterans’ Association, who spoke to veterans of the Boer War. He was followed by the Hon. W. Perry, President of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association; Commodore W. E. Parry, R.N., Chief of the Naval Staff, who extended greetings to the Navy; Group-Captain H. W. L. Saunders, Chief of the Air Staff; Matron Willis, Matron-in-Chief of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, who greeted all nurses who wore the Red Cross, in the last war and in this; Captain F, A. Macindoe, of the Merchant Service Guild of New Zealand; Colonel A. E. Conway, Adjutant-General of the New Zealand Military Forces; and finally Mr. Jones, as Minister of Defence. The programme was interspersed with suitable martial music, many rousing old war tunes being played.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 80, 3 January 1941, Page 42
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193GREETINGS TO THE FORCES New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 80, 3 January 1941, Page 42
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