N.Z. CLUB IN CAIRO
OPENING CEREMONY BY LADY WAVELL (From the Official Wa? Correspondent with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East.) CAIRO, February 5. Gratitude for the generosity of the New Zealand public, whose contributions to patriotic funds made the club possible, was expressed by Major-Gen-eral B. C. Freyberg at the opening today of the New Zealand Forces Club at Cairo. General Freyberg said he hoped the club would be a home away from home, because New Zealand beer, tobacco, butter, jam, honey, mutton, lamb and perhaps even tinned oysters, were likely to be available shortly. He paid a warm tribute to the kindness of British people 'in Cairo, who had so generously accommodated New Zealanders at various services and institutions until they had a club of their own. Lady Wavell declared the club open, and spoke of the pleasure of seeing the premises, which as a Fascist Club had been dedicated once to Mussolini’s cult of terror, but had now become a place where the free men of the Empire would gather as their fathers did in another war.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23248, 7 February 1941, Page 4
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