LEAVE TO BE SPENT IN N.Z.
TWO MILITARY OFFICERS REACH AUCKLAND
[THB PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, December 26. Two military officers arrived from Sydney by the Aorangi to spend part of their leave fishing in New Zealand. Colonel R. W. Briggs has spent the last two and a half years in the Philippine Islands as Chief of Staff of the United States Philippine Department, and is now on his way back to the United States. An enthusiastic big game fisherman, he plans to spend some time in the Dominion fishing for marlin and mako. A British officer, commander of a regiment of artillery at Hong Kong, Lieutenant-Colonel B. Court-Treatt, proposes to spend two months’ trout fishing in the North and South Islands. Although unwilling to comment on the military situation, created by the conflict in China, Colonel Court-Treatt said that the only difference that had been caused in life in Hong Kong was that the city was greatly overcrowded by the large numbers of refugees v from China. Rents and prices of household requirements had risen very sharply.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22594, 27 December 1938, Page 7
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