COMMENDATORE BLUNNO

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 50, 22 November 1928, Page 8

COMMENDATORE BLUNNO

HIS TWO HAPPY YEARS IN NEW ZEALAND Commendatore Michele . Biunno, Royal Consul of Italy for New Zealand, who will leave for Italy in January to report to headquarters in Rome, said yesterday that he arrived in Wellington on January 21, 1927, and his two years in this delightful and hospitable country had been very happy, if uneventful. “My relations with the other Consulates and with the Government,” he said, “have been most cordial, and I would like to express my thanks to the various Government Departments for their unfailing courtesy and assistance. I have always, too, been able to rely upon the Press of New Zealand to give prominence to any communication I may have sent them putting Italian affairs and politics in their true light. The Italians iu New Zealand are law abiding, hard working, and clean living, but, although their numbers are numerically small, my duties have been no sinecure. To my Italian family, composed as they are of all sorts, I have had to play the role of father, and, although at times my paternal hand may have seemed heavy, the pose has only been assumed for the good of others.” Signor Biunno added that he felt sure that his successor, who was a comparatively young man, would be accorded the same support as he had been.