CHRISTMAS MESSAGES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 22, 23 December 1944, Page 6

CHRISTMAS MESSAGES

(Press Assn) WELLINGTON, Dec. 23 The following Christmas messages have been received by the Prime Minister. From General Freyberg: Christmas 1944 finds us in Northern Italy alter a year of hard fighting in difficult conditions, country and weather. Once again we will be in the field and there will be little time for relaxation. However, Christmas parcels and the grant from the Patriotic Fund for Christinas fare will he enjoyed and appreciated to the full as "soon as opportunity occurs. Wherever we are on Christmas Day, our thoughts will be of those at home in New Zealand. May I send to them through you greetings and best wishes from all ranks of the Second N.Z.E.F. and may 1945 bring us victory and peace. From the United States Secretary of State (Mr Stettinius) : At this holiday season I send my sincere good wishea for Christmas and the New Year. I know that we may take increased courage from our common successes of recent months and that we may look forward to continued close co-operation in the future. from the Acting-Governor of Fiji and Hitrh Commissioner for the Western Pacific: The Government and people of Fiji and the Western Pacific once again thank you all in New Zealand for vour friendship and co-opera-tion in the past year and wish you a happy Christmas and a New Year of fresh victories for your gallant fightI ing men.