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COMMANDER OF NEW ZEALAND TROOPS MILITARY PROBLEMS TO BE DISCUSSED [ Per Press Asiiociatiou.] WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. It was announced to-day by the Minister of Defence, Hon. F. Jones, that at the invitation of the Government, backed by the recommendation of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Major-General B. C. Freyberg, who is to command the New Zealand military forces overseas, will shortly pay a visit to the Dominion. At the time of his appointment to the New Zealand command, said Mr. Jones. General Freyberg was General Officer Commanding the Salisbury Plain area. He had already, since the outbreak of war, spent some time in France. Now he was coming to discuss questions of organisation with Major-General J. E. Duigan, Chief of the General Staff, in New Zealand, and the Government, to meet officers and men whom he would lead and generally to familiarise himself with the military situation in New Zealand. It was expected that General Freyberg would be several weeks in New Zealand. He left London yesterday.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 288, 6 December 1939, Page 8
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