A FISHING HOLIDAY
MILITARY OFFICERS FROM ABROAD (Special to Daily Times; AUCKLAND, Dec. 26. Two military officers arrived from Sydney by the Aorangi to spend part of their leave fishing in New Zeaiand. One of them, Colonel R. W. Briggs, has spent the past two and a-half years in the Philippine Islands as Chief of Staff of the United States Philippine Department, and is no-v on his way back to the United States. A keen big game fisherman, he plans to spend some time in the Dominion fishing for marlin end mako. The other, a British officer commanding a regiment of artillery at Hongkong, Lieutenant-colonel B. Court-Treatt, proposes to spend two months trout fishing in the North and South Island. Although, unwilling to comment on the military situation created by the conflict in China, Colonel CourtTreatt said the only difference thahad been caused in life in Hong kong.was that the city was grealij over-crowded by the large rmmbert of refugees from China, with the ie suit that rents and the prices of household requirements had ri:er' very sharply.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23692, 27 December 1938, Page 9
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