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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16320, 8 January 1921, Page 8

“ I want to tell you .this, and I do not think you will disagree with me* I would just as willingly propose the toast of the American team as that of tho Australasians ” (said tho Prime Minister at the Davis Cup dinner in Auckland). ” I think you will understand why. They are Anglo-Saxons just as we are.” New Zealand, he opined, would take part in the winning back of the cup, but he heartily congratulated the winning team on its success, and was proud of the conduct of the New Zealanders towards their visitors. The Premier touched a lighter note when he suggested Mr Hardy should bring across a Rugby football team and play New Zealand’s national game. He vouched that Mr Parr, the Mayor of Auckland (Air J. H. Gunson), and himself would become members of the New Zealand team. Mr Massey expressed the hope that when the cup changed hands again it might come to New Zealand.. “ A strange phenomenon is,” Signor Marconi points out, “ that the most progressive countries of Western Europe have not yet developed wireless telephones, while China, the most backward nation, daily uses the wireless telephone for communication between the cities and the rural districts."