CABLES TO AUCKLAND

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21043, 20 February 1940, Page 5

CABLES TO AUCKLAND

SAFE ARRIVAL REFORTED (Special tn Times) AUCKLAND, Tuesday Cablegrams intimating their safe arrival in England have been received from the two Auckland members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve gun-crew of the Doric Star. They were among the nine New Zealanders believed to have been imprisoned on board the German auxiliary Altmarck. The cablegrams were sent from Edinburgh after the rescue of the British seamen by the destroyer Cossack. Th R.N.V.R. gunners were:—G. J. Lynch, son of Mrs E. W. Lynch, of 14 Tawniri Road, Onehunga; R. J. Craig, son of Mr N. R. Craig, of Mount Eden, and brought up by Mrs A. T. Craig, of 1 Marine Parade, Herne Bay, who is his grandmother. Mr and Mrs J. Watt, of Massey Road, Mangere, also received a cablegram from their son, Mr J. Watt, who was refrigeration engineer in the Doric Star. His message was sent from Leith. SEAMEN GIVE THANKS (Special lo Times) AUCKLAND, Tuesday A thanksgiving service to mark the rescue of British seamen from the German auxiliary Altmarck was held in the chapel of the Flying Angel Missions to Seamen last night. The service was conducted by the port chaplain, the Rev. H. K. Vickery. Only seafarers were admitted and so keen were they to take part m a service lor the men from the Doric Star, Tairoa and other ships that the accommodation was not sufficient.