NEW AMERICAN CONSUL
KEEN FISHERMAN AND SKI-ER (Peh United Peess Assocu.no*.] AUCKLAND, April 18. “ I am particularly pleased to have the opportunity of living for a time in New Zealand,” said Mr K. C. Cox, the new United States Consul-General, who arrived on the Mariposa and leaves / for Wellington, where he replaces Mr L. C. Pinkerton. “ We hear a great deal in America about the beauty of your country, and I am glad to have the opportunity of seeing it,” said Mr Cox, He declined to discuss world affairs, but said, however, that he was confident that the United States was determined to carry out fully the prbvisions of the Lend and Lease Bill and give every aid to Britain. . ' . Mr Cox is keenly interested in trout fishing and ski-ing, and is anxious to try the ski runs at Mount Cook and Tongariro. He admired Auckland Harbour, but when asked how it compared with American harbours smilingly replied : “ I never make comparisons.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23863, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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162NEW AMERICAN CONSUL Evening Star, Issue 23863, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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