A GERMAN LANTERN
DEPARTMENT'S EXPLANATION.
With reference to the Press Association telegram from Blenheim, published last night, stating that a German lantern was used at Mr. Hurst Seagcr's lecture on war memorials in battlefield cemeteries, a "Post" reporter was informed to-day that the Department of Internal Affairs was asked at the last moment if the Blenheim Borough , Council could bo provided with a lantern. Immediate inquiries were made in Wellington, and the loan of a machine was secured from a certain firm. The machine was consigned direct from the Wellington business house to Blenheim. The Internal Affairs Department was not aware until after Mr. Hurst Seager arrived ' in Wellington last evening that the lantern which had "been furnished was not a British one.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 10
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123A GERMAN LANTERN Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 10
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