147 — The Governor-General of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

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147
The Governor-General of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

17 May 1940

Your telegram of 15 May (No. 140). His Majesty's Government in New Zealand have now received advice of the Australian suggestion that the Orcades and Strathnaver be used to obviate difficulties of overcrowding, &c., from Capetown onwards, and they give warm support to this suggestion.

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Title: Documents Relating to New Zealand’s Participation in the Second World War 1939―45: Volume 1

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1949, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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