MAYOR APOLOGISES.
Mr W. M. Hughes Classed as an “ Alien.” LONDON, September 8. “ Have you seen Mr W. M. Hughes?” That question by a “ Sun ” representative was the first intimation that the Mayor of Gravesend had that the only living Freeman of the city was on a visit to it. His Worship was much distressed when he learned that Mr Hughes, one of the only two Freemen that Gravesend has had since the Middle Ages, had had a shock when, after arriving in the town unnoticed, a maid at the hotel insisted on his signing the aliens' register. '1 he visitor at first protested that > he was not an alien, but the maid wouldn’t listen to him, and, with a chuckle, he signed. On it being pointed out to the Mayor that as so many Australian liners dock across the river, nobody in Gravesend could be justified in assuming that Sydney was a port in a foreign country, the Mayor said he would apologise to Mr Hughes, and : would instruct the Town Clerk to > arrange that he does not depart unhonoured and unsung.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 563, 17 September 1932, Page 1
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