Flying Visitors Reception
Emphasising the value which New Zealand people placed upon the presence in this country of large delegations to the Pacific science congress, Mr. J. R Flair, chairman of the P.B. Catchment Board, stated last evening that he hoped the delegates would have experienced a welcome commensurate with public appreciation of the occasion. Referring to the presence in Gisborne of Dr E. S. Archibald, director of national experimental farms in Canada, and Mr. E. G. Holt, deputy-director of the United States conservation organisation. Mr. Hair suggested that on their plane trip to this district they must have had a good bird’s-eye view of Ngauruhoe in eruption. Even Nature seemed to be bent on offering distinguished visitors to New Zealand an explosive welcome, he added, amidst laughter.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 4
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