POLISH CONSUL-GENERAL
BIOLOGY PROFESSOR CHOSEN [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] j (Recd. January 17, 11.50 a.m.) j LONDON, January 16. j The Polish Government has appointed Professor K. Wodzicki as i Consul-General in New Zealand. The appointment is the second under the new policy of Polish representation throughout the Empire, the first of which was made in South Africa. ' Professor Wodzicki was formerly Professor of Biology at Warsaw University College of Agriculture. He said I that he escaped after the German occupation of Poland, by means of an invitation from friends in Budapest to lecture here on ornithology, for which the Germans gave him 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, by bribing a member of the Gestapo with two pounds of coffee.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1941, Page 7
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