CORONATION TROOPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23203, 29 May 1937, Page 13

CORONATION TROOPS

NEW ZEALANDERS RETURNING PELIGHTED WITH VISIT LONDON, May 27. rt Thanks for a very good time," shouted a New Zealand trooper as ihe Rangitiki sailed to a small knot of people who were bidding them farewell, including two New Zealand members of Parliament, Messrs Howard and Schramm, representing Mr Savage. All declared that they were delighted with the visit, but were i disappointed • that the - New Zealand Government had not arranged for them to visit the French battlefields. ' ; ; A; VX'S EXPERIENCE LONDON, May 28. (Received May-29,'at 0.15 a.m.) "Every time Sergeant James Crichton, V.C., of the New : Zealand Coronation contingent, looks at his watch iU will remind him of British hospitality," says the News Chronicle in relating how he accidentally dropped his watch, wrecking the works. He took it to a well-known London firm. It was nearly worn out, said Crichton. but when it was handed back he found that they had put in entirely new works. He asked how much it would cost, and was told that, as he was the holder of the Victoria Cross, there was nothing to pay and to accept it as a small token of their appreciation.