MR ROOSEVELT SENDS GREETINGS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OP GIFT FROM MR SAVAGE . (PEESS AUSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) . WELLINGTON, February 24. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) received from Mr Roosevelt a personal letter conveying greetings and thanks for the best wishes extended to him by Mr Savage. Mr Savage’s letter was included in the first air mail carried by the Samoan Clipper from New Zealand to America, and accompanying it was a gift of a rug. Mr Roosevelt’s letter reads: “It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your holiday greetings sent by the first direct air mail from New Zealand to the United States. The inauguration of this seryice was, indeed, a great occasion, and, though shadowed by the recent disaster, I am sure that this new means of communication will tighten still more the bonds of friendship and goodwill between the two countries. “Thank you also for the rug which accompanied your letter. , I shall keep it as a valued memento of your great country. , “With best wishes for a happy New Year. —I am, very sincerely yours, Franklin D. Roosevelt.’’ -
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 12
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