N.Z. FORCES CLUB OPENED
ESTABLISHMENT AT CAIRO FORMER PROPERTY OF FASCISTS (From the Official War Correspondent) CAIRO, February 5. Gratitude for the generosity of the New Zealand public whose contributions to the patriotic funds made the club possible was expressed by the Commander of the New Zealand Division, Major-General B. C. Freyberg, at the opening today of the New Zealand Forces Club at Cairo. MajorGeneral Freyberg said he hoped the club would be a home away from home because New Zealand beer, tobacco, butter, jam, honey, mutton, lamb and perhaps even tinned oysters were likely to be available shortly. He paid a warm tribute to the kindness of the Cairo Britishers who so generously accommodated the New Zealanders at various services institutions until they had a club of their own. Lady Wavell, wife of the. British Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East, General Sir Archibald Wavell, declared the club open and spoke of the pleasure in seeing the premises, which, as a fascist club, had been dedicated once to Mussolini’s cult of terror, become a place where free men of the Empire would gather as their fathers did in another war.
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Southland Times, Issue 24354, 7 February 1941, Page 6
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190N.Z. FORCES CLUB OPENED Southland Times, Issue 24354, 7 February 1941, Page 6
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