NAVY LEAGUE
At the Karori School on Friday afternoon juvenile members of the Navy League, to the number of 120, were presented with signed photographs of the Prince of Wales. The headmaster, Mr.. J. C. Burns, M.A., presided, and welcomed the visitors, who included Surgeon Lieutenant Commander O'Riordon and Lieutenant Marriott, of H.M.S. Veronica, Mr. R. A. Wright. M.P., Mr. B. Keesing (representing the Navy League), Lieu-tenant-Colonel R. B. Smythe, D.5.0., members of the School Committee, and parents. Appropriate addresses were delivered by Messrs. Keesing and Wright, Lieutenant Marriott and LieutenantOolonel Smythe, these being interspersed with scngs and recitations by the children. At the conclusion rousing»:heers .were given for the visitors and &r the British Navy. The visitors were entertained at afternoon tea, and each was presented with a handsome bouquet.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 88, 11 October 1920, Page 2
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