PUBLIC INVESTITURE
VICE-REGAL CEREMONY
58 DECORATIONS PRESENTED (PA.) WELLINGTON. Sept. 5. By command of his Majesty the King the Governor-General. Sir Cyril Newall held a ceremony of investiture in the Town Hall, Wellington, to-night. Awards and decorations were presented to 58 members of the three services, commissioned and other ranks. The citations, which were read before each decoration was pinned on the breast of the recipient, provided a crosssection of New Zealand military history in the present war and a reminder of the courage, initiative, and skill of the men who added lustre to her arms. „ ... There was one decoration for an air force officer who made a gallant escape from Hongkong and received what is for this armed force a rare decoration, the Military Cross.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25941, 6 September 1945, Page 6
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