CITY’S FAREWELL
Members Of Special Force CABARET EVENING Men Wished Best Of Good Fortune The best of good fortune was wished Wellington members of the first echelon of the Special Force at a farewell function tendered them by the Wellington Metropolitan Patriotic Committee at the Exhibition cabaret last evening. There was a large attendance of men in khaki, and the other fighting services, the navy and the air force, were represented.
The deputy-mayor of Wellington, Mr. M. M. F. Luckie, apologized for the inability of the mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, to be present. Mr. Hislop telegraphed a message wishing the men the best of good fortune. “The citizens of Wellington,” said Mr. Luckie, “desire to take advantage of this opportunity of greeting you, to bid you good fortune and success in the great adventure you have undertaken, and a safe return home. “You are fighting for us who are left behind to retain that freedom won for us 700 years ago, and now threatened by the greatest tyranny the modern world has ever seen. You carry with you the gratitude of everybody you leave behind. That debt you lay on our shoulders will never be taken off them. No call for recognition of that gratitude will ever be made in vain. Wellington people have such long memories that the great service you are going to do for them will never be in chance of being forgotten. “We are saying to you now, goodbye, God speed, and a safe return, knowing that you will be true to the traditions that have made this country what it is,” Mr. Luckie said. The mayor of Lower Hutt, Mr. J. W. Andrews, expressed the thanks of the people of Wellington and district to the men who had volunteered and conveyed to them the very best wishes. The traditions won on the battlefields of France and Belgium by this young nation before, were going to be carried on by the young men there that night. No one had any fears as to how they would acquit themselves, and they trusted that the response for the succeeding echelons and the reinforcements would be just as good as for the first. .
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 77, 23 December 1939, Page 13
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366CITY’S FAREWELL Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 77, 23 December 1939, Page 13
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