SOLDIERS MADE WELCOME
“The people of Australia could not do enough for us,” writes a Dunedin member of an overseas reinforcement, regarding the manner in which New Zealand soldiers were treated. “As soqn as we were ashore we began looking for a bank to change our New Zealand money to save any further bother,” he continues. “While we were standing on a street corner a woman asked us if she could be of any assistance, and when we made known our intention, she said our money would be accepted anywhere that day. Later, a man halted bis ear beside three of us and offered to take us for a drive. He was a doctor and. after picking up his wife, be drove us about, showing us all he could in the Lime available. Ours was not an isolated case. We have since heard of dozens of similar incidents.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 47, 19 November 1941, Page 9
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