POLISH CONSULGENERAL
APPOINTMENT FOR NFAY
ZEALAND
London. Jan. 16
The Polish Government lias appointed Professor K. Wodzicki as Consul-General for New Zealand. The appointment is the second in the new policy of Polish representation throughout the Empire, _ the first having been in South Africa. Professor Wodzicki was formerly professor of biology at Warsaw University College of Agriculture. He said that he escaped after the German occupation of Poland by means of an inbitation from friends in Budapest to lecture there on ornithology. For this reason the Germans gave him a special visa, but he did not return to Poland. Friends in Italy then invited him to lecture there, and a special visa Avas again obtained by similar procedure. This enabled him to journey to France, where he joined General Sikorski. His wife and children escaped earlier from Poland by bribing a member of the Nazi Gestapo with 21b. of coffee.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13242, 18 January 1941, Page 4
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