PRAISE FOR N.Z. FORGES
The: Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) has received the following message from Major-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, G.0.C., Second N.Z.E.F.:—
"I am most grateful to you and the Government for your kind cable of congratulations. The honour conferred on me I take as an expression oi admiration for the magnificent bearing on the battlefield of the New Zealand, Forces here in the Middle East. I wish the people of New Zealand could know the esteem in which the New Zealanders are held and the golden opinions they have gained upon every side. May I add my most sincere thanks to you and the Government for the great help given during two difficult and momentous years for New Zealand."
The inquest into the death of Mrs. Ida Gwen Speight, whose body was found with the head battered at her home on November 25 last;, was concluded yesterday before the Coroner, Mr. A. J. Graham. The verdict was that Mrs. Speight died in Palmerston North on November- 25, 1941, from hemorrhage and lacerations of the brain..homicidally-sustained. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1942, Page 6
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