JAPANESE VISITORS
OUTING AT EASTBOURNE Twenty-five officers of tho Japanese warships visited Eastbourne yesterday. They were taken over in tho Muritai, fend were received by the Acting-Mayor of Eastbourne (Mr. H. W. Shortt). The visitors, had several sets of tennis on the municipal courts, proving themselves worthy opponents of tho players ranged against them, who included the Acting-Mayor and Mrs. Shortt, Miss V. Shortt, and Mrs. Eric Shortt. The visitors were shown th© sights of Eastbourne, and expressed themselves as most favourably impressed with Muritai Park and the bush scenery. Afternoon tea was dispensed in the new pavilion, and the party returned to the city by the 7 o’clock boat. A number of the Christian members of the warship crews attended a service conducted by Bishop Sprott at St. Peter’s Church at 5 o’clock yesterday fefteraoon.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 117, 9 February 1924, Page 8
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