WIVES OF SERVICEMEN
PARTY ARRIVES FROM BRITAIN
MANY CHILDREN INCLUDED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, .Mar. 23. The second party of British wives to arrive in the Dominion within two days was welcomed recently .at a casualty clearing station. Their husbands, many of whom were repatriated or invalided home about a year ago and are now back in civilian life, were waiting for them. Wives of airmen, numbering 37, were again in the majority. Three of them were widows. Children, ranging from the three months’ old baby of a Christchurch stoker to the nine-year-old elder daughter of a Hamilton flight sergeant, were sturdy and plentiful. ■The Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones, welcomed the arrivals on behalf of the Prime Minister. Mr C. M. Bowden, M.P., was present on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition, and Mr W. Leadley represented the Returned Services’ Association. Sir Harry Batterbee, as representative of the United Kingdom in New Zealand, said they had come to “one of the best two countries in the world.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25802, 24 March 1945, Page 4
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