MR. FRASER AT WALES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1941, Page 7

MR. FRASER AT WALES

VISIT TO SWANSEA. (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. Grenfell, visited the Swansea Hospital and saw the wards, which are ready day and night to receive airraid victims. Mr Fraser was told that hot-water bottles are heated immediately the sirens sound. At the Guildhall, 1000 school children, waving Union Jacks and the New Zealand flag, cheeved F who later inspected 400 men ana women of the Civil Defence Sei vices. He met Captain H. L. Morgan, D-S.O-, Commander of H.M.S. teiomca during the Napier earthquake. The Mayor of. Swansea, at the Guildhall Incheon, said. . has had hard knocks and severe wounds Britain has. been greatly Sped by the We lions ot men. material, and food. We <wa ■orou.d of our Dominions. Mr Fraser said: “I am proud to be able to see the people ot tho'houfra citte' streets'; and bodies ol the pe&le. but he cannot destroy their sotI? hoot isl prowded by ’vlvit I have seen m Swansea, me scenes will never bo erased from m-’ memory. I have met people raised to heights nev 9 x \ s^ r !? factory Mr Fraser visited an lactoxy, and watched youths and girls carryS? out the whole process ot shellcase making.—U-P.A. ! FREEDOM OF CITY. 5 (Rec. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. Mr. Fraser was made a Freeman nf Swansea His name will appear on the roll immediately under that of Mr Menzies. The eero’nony was held in the Guildhall. The Lout Mayor moving tne resolution thr.t {he y Freedom be offered, “in recognition of Mr. Fraser’s distinguism-d services to the Empire, added that the Freedom'was the greatest honour the city could bestow on tne wm-thiest men and women. Mr. Fraser was a worthy son oJ Ns.w , Zealand, and. a great statesman. Wales and New Zealand had oEen met on the Rugby field, but to--d<C7 were in the same team, against a stern and x ruthless fo~. EL. asked Mr Fraser to convey to New Zealand Swansea’s admiration for N?w Zealand’s-devotion to the present cause, which was a great -*’l- - said that never before had the people of the British Commonwealth been more a°tri d together, He naid a tribute to Swansea s contribution to the welfare of the Mother Country, mid also expressed admiration for the wav the neople had stood tio io the raiding. The peoole of Swansea were fighting New. Zealand s ba.t.e, as much as their own.—U.P.A.