SPLENDIDLY FIT
NEW ZEALAND TROOPS MESSAGE FROM MR EDEN (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday When the New Zealand Government was advised that the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Mr Anthony Eden, would be in Egypt to welcome the first echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, cabled him in these words: — ‘I have received with very 1 great pleasure the news of your visit to Egypt in order to welcome the New Zealand and Australian troops on arrival there. Your action will. I know, be most warmly appreciated by the New Zealand troops and by the pub - lie of New Zealand generally when it becomes known. My warmest personal thanks and best wishes.”
Mr Savage to-day received from Mr Eden the following reply, dated yesterday:—“l am most grateful for your message and am delighted to see the New Zealand troops this morning looking splendidly fit and well and in the best of spirits. New Zealand may indeed be proud of this fine force.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21038, 14 February 1940, Page 2
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