A POLISH CONSUL
PROFESSOR WODZICKI
APPOINTMENT TO DOMINION
(Received January 17, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, January 16
The Polish Government has appointed Professor K. Wodzicki as Con-sul-General in New Zealand.
The appointment is the second in the new policy of Polish representation throughout the Empire, the first of which was to South Africa.
Professor Wodzicki was formerly professor of biology at the Warsaw University College of Agriculture. He said he escaped after the German occupation of Poland by means of an invitation from friends at Budapest to lecture there on ornithology, for which the Germans gave a special visa. He did not return to Poland.
Friends in Italy then invited him to lecture in Italy, for which a special visa was again obtained. A similar procedure enabled him to journey to France, where he joined General Sikorski.
His wife and children escaped earlier from Poland by bribing a member of the Gestapo with two pounds of coffee.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 8
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