VISIT TO BATTLEFIELDS.
RESTORATION IN FRANCE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, this day. Mr. R. G. Milligan, New Zealand attorney for the Martha Gold Mining Company, who returned, from a five and a half months' trip abroad by the Awotea, was in Waihi this week in connection with the fiffairs of the company. He travelled to London, via Canada and New York, and returned via the Suez Canal. He 6pent ten weeks in England and made two short trips to the Continent. The bulb fields in Holland, he said, were a glorious sight. Referring to the battlefields, Mr. Milligan said that complete restoration of the country had taken place in the war area. For instance, at Passchendaele, which was one of the most heavily shelled portions of the front, there was to-day hardly a trace of war.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 3
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