MR. SAVAGE'S MESSAGE TO U.S. PRESIDENT

Northern Advocate, 29 December 1937, Page 6

MR. SAVAGE'S MESSAGE TO U.S. PRESIDENT

[Special To “Northern Advocate ”] AUCKLAND, This Day.

A letter of greeting, accompanied by the gift of a New Zealand travelling rug, is being sent as .a gesture of friendship from New Zealand to the United States of America by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, to the President of the United States, Mr Franklin D, Roosevelt, through the medium of the first transpacific air mail, which will be carried from Auckland by the Pan-American Airways Samoan Clipper. The Prime Minister, in his recent public utterances in Auckland, Mas repeatedly stressed the significance of having on the waters of the Waitemata at the one time the flying-boat of both

British and American companies.

He has made it clear that New Zealand values highly the air link with the United States of America and this sentiment is fully expressed in his letter to the American President. The letter reads as follows:

“My dear President, “By this first direct air mail from New Zealand to the United States

of America, being carried by PanAmerican Airways’ Samoan Clipper, I have pleasure in sending to

you my personal greetings, “I welcome the establishment by this'air service of more rapid communication across the Pacific as a further means of bringing the great American people and the people of this country into closer relationship and strengthening the ties of friendship and goodwill which rightly and happily exist between them; “May I ask you to accept as a momento of this occasion the rug

of New Zealand manufacture

which accompanies this letter, and also my good wishes fori a bright and prosperous New Year.

“Yours sincerely, “M. J. Savage

Arrangements for the despatch of the letter and the travelling rug were made last evening, and, on arrival in San Francisco, they will be speedily forwarded to Washington for delivery to the President.