USE FOR THE BLOCKHOUSES
"CREAMERIES AN_O . BUTTER FACTORIES."
(Received 9 a.m.)
LONDON, May 25,
Mr Seddon, speaking at a banquet at Pretoria, expressed the hope that the blockhouses would soon be turned into creameries and butter factories.
WELLINGTON, Saturday.
Mr Seddon has cabled to Sir J. G. Ward as follows. —"Passed a pleasant time at Pretoria as the guest of the Administrator. Had tea"■..'-with Lord Milher, and dinner with Lord Kitchener, Had a long interview with both yesterday. Very satisfactory. Right men-in the right place. To-day visited Ela'ndsfontein Hospital, Forty-nine. New Zealanders are patients. No serious cases, chiefly dysentery, rheumatism, and; enteric. Lord Kitchener has sent Colonel Birdwood with us. 'General Badeh : Powell also accompahies." Peeling" for New Zealand cordial. The Administrator practically admits our land settlement conditions are the best suited for South Africa. Am now proceeding to Vereeniging to inspect, the Ninth Con: tingent. Time permitting, I will see the Boer, delegates. Had..a most.cordial send-off at Pretoria and Johannesburg.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1902, Page 5
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