CIVIC RECEPTION
SIR HARRY BATTERBEE
ROYAL INTEREST IN N.Z. (Per Press Association.) i AUCKLAND, this day. At a widely representative civic reception to the new British High Commissioner. Sir Harry Batterbee, at the Town Hall, a welcome to the city was extended by Mr. A. S. Bailey, a city councillor, in the absence from Auckland of the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis. Mr. W. T. Anderton, M.P., spoke on behalf of the Government, and Mr. A. Ely, president of the Chamber of Commerce, for the commercial community. Sir Harry Batterbee, replying, said that before he left England he met the King and Queen, who spoke with vivid remembrance of the various episodes in their visit to New Zealand as the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927, and they recalled many happy memories of the occasion.
Sir Harry Batterbee said he himself would never* forget the scenes of loyalty and enthusiasm which were shown on that occasion throughout New Zealand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 7
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