CHEERFUL SUFFERERS
LONDON OFFICE STAFF BOMBS DESTROY BUILDING (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Monday The New Zealand office in Wellington of a firm of insurance brokers has received from its London office a cable which admirably expresses the spirit in which the people of London are taking the terrific hammering which is being dealt them. Last Thursday a cable from the London office of' the firm advised that the building in which they were situated, which was only about thirty yards from the city end of London Bridge, had been totally destroyed. The manager in New Zealand immediately cabled the managing director of the London office expressing from the whole of the organisation in New Zealand sympathy and gratitude that the whole of the London staff was safe. The cable concluded by asking: “How can we assist
you?” This morning an answering cable | lodged in London on Saturday ad- • vised that the London office was al- ' ready reorganising. Their records were safe and they had moved to i a new address. The reply concluded: “You can only assist in the capacity of navvy work. All cheerful.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21219, 16 September 1940, Page 6
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