Arrival Tomorrow Morning
[Special to “Northern Advocate ”] AUCKLAND. This Day. A number of official calls will be paid on Captain W. E. Parry, of the Achilles, tomorrow morning. The callers will include the Governor-General (Viscount Galway), Ministers of the Crown, the Mayor (Sir Ernest Davis), the chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board (Mr W. B. Darlow) and the superintendent (Mr D. Holderness), the French consul (M. Andre Pouquet) and the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand (Sir Harry Batterbee). On a number of the banners in Queen Street Maori names appear. Haeremai is the equivalent in the Maori tongue of “Welcome,” and Kia Ora means “Good Luck.” On a banner near the Town Hall is inscribed “Ake Ake Kia Kaha,” which means “For Ever Let Us Be Strong.” Berths at 7 a.m. The Prime Minister (Mr Savage) officially announced last night that H.M.S. Achilles will arrive at Auckland tomorrow morning and will berth at the Central Wharf at seven o’clock. As the Achilles enters Rangitoto Channel she will be greeted by aircraft and soldiers on duty at the fort and at Narrow Neck, and will be escorted up the harbour by most of Auckland’s fleet of pleasure boats. She will move slowly past the Naval Base to receive the greetings of the naval officers and ratings there, and will then proceed to her berth. Sirens Will Sound. Although no official announcement has been made it is probable that the ferry boats and most of the ships in port will sound their sirens and that city factory whistles will join in the welcome. Members of the Cabinet who are coming to Auckland for the welcome are the Deputy-Prime Minister (Mr Fraser), the Minister of Defence (Mr Jones), the Attorney-General (MiMason), the Minister of Supply (Mr Sullivan), and also the Leader of the Legislative Council (the Hon D. Wilson). A number of decorations have already been erected in Queen Street. The second banner stretched across the street nearest to the waterfront is one stating “Welcome from Whangarei.” In England Too. The other ships of the Royal Navy which shared with the Achilles the victory over the Graf Spee at Montevideo, H.M.S. Exeter and H.M.S. Ajax, will be honoured in England while New Zealand is acclaiming the Achilles. A press cablegram from London last night said that an invitation had been given by the Lord Mayor of London (Sir William Coxen) to 760 officers and men of the Exeter and Ajax to a luncheon at the Guild Hall tomorrow. Before the luncheon detachments from both ships will march through London streets.
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Northern Advocate, 22 February 1940, Page 6
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