MR. NASH FAREWELLED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 243, 14 October 1936, Page 8

MR. NASH FAREWELLED

MINISTER LEWES NEW ZEALAND I Per Press Association j AUCKLAND, Oct. 13. 4 Three Air Force aeroplanes circling in formation over the Aorangi and swooping down in salute gave New Zealand’s "good-bye” to the Minister of Finance and Marketing, the Hon. Walter Nash, on his departure for England this afternoon. The Minister spent a busy morning with a long succession of callers, some of whom had business to discuss while others simply desired to offer him their good wishes. “If I had had another couple of days in Auckland 1 could hardly have got to the end of those who wanted to see me,” he remarked, after boarding the liner. Mr Nash, however, found time to accompany the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, on a visit to the proposed site of the new central fire station. He was aboard in good time to receive more callers, among whom was the Mayor, Mr Ernest Davis. Mrs Nash’s cabin was filled with flowers, and bouquets were also presented in numbers to other ladies of the official party. As the liner drew slowly out at 4.15 p.m. a hundred or more waterside workers gathered on the berth and on the overhead bridge and cheered. “Talk straight to Stanley Baldwin when you get there,” called one man, and another asked the Minister in a loud voice where was the red flower that ought to have been ih his buttonhole. Mr Nash responded by taking a crimson rose from his wife’s bouquet and waving it above his head. The aeroplanes circled around the liner as she went down the harboui and they were still in attendance when she disappeared round North Head.