NEW ZEALANDERS PRESENTED
PARTY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, May 22 Five New Zealanders were the first to be presented to the King and Queen at the second of last week’s two presentation parties at Buckingham Palace. They were Air Commodore Maurice Buckley, Mrs Buckley. ■ d their daughter, Miss Robin Buckley, and Commander R. Harding and Mrs Harding, all of Wellington. Air Commodore Buckley and Commander Harding, who are New Zealand air and naval liaison officers in London, were presented by the High Commissioner (Mr W. J. Jordan) as n.'cmbers of his staff, and they therefore took diplomatic precedence over some 35 other New Zealanders who attended by general invitation. Mrs Jordan, who as wife of the Hi?h Commissioner has the right to make one private presentation on such occasions, presented to their Majesties Mrs Porritt, wife of Mr A. E. Porritt. the well-known New Zealand surgeon and athlete.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25811, 24 May 1949, Page 3
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