Exeter, Ajax Respond To Auckland Greetings
[Special to “Northern Advocate ”] AUCKLAND, This Day. The Mayor of Auckland (Sir Ernest Davis), who yesterday cabled the Lord Mayor of London conveying fraternal greetings to the captains, officers and ships’ companies of H.M.S. Exeter and H.M.S. Ajax, received today the following reply: “Deeply grateful for your cablegram which I read to those assembled at the Guildhall luncheon. “It was a most happy circumstance that you received the captain, and officers and men of the Achilles today, while those of the Exeter and Ajax were received here. “We reciprocate your kindly thought."
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Northern Advocate, 24 February 1940, Page 8
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98Exeter, Ajax Respond To Auckland Greetings Northern Advocate, 24 February 1940, Page 8
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