High Dutch Honour For St. Peter’s Headmaster

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22819, 14 December 1948, Page 3

High Dutch Honour For St. Peter’s Headmaster

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 13. The Netherlands Minister, Mr. J. B. D. Pennink, will visit Auckland on I January 23 to welcome more than 100 ' Dutch immigrants who are travelling to Australia on the liner Volendam and who will travel to Auckland by air from Sydney.

i While in Auckland he will invest the Rev. Father Alink, superior of the Mill Hill Fathers and also headmaster of St. \ Peter's School for Maori Boys with the I insignia of an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau, a high decoration that Queen Juliana has conferred on him. | A naturalised New Zealand subject, I Father Alink, is Dutch-born.

The Minister also hopes to visit other North Island centres in January and the following month will tour the South Island. He will lake his collection of photographs compiled before lj.e left Holland of the graves of New Zealand’s war dead in that country, and is anxious in the course of his tour to make contact with as many of the relatives concerned as possible. The Minister hopes iatcr to revisit Masterton, the people of which "adopted'’ the old Roman city of Veale which was badly blitzed by the Germans. The people of Holland, he said, deeply appreciated the action of Masterton.