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The New Zealand Liaison Officer (London) to the Chief of the General Staff (Wellington)

Secret and personal for General Puttick.

With reference to New Zealand Government cable of 24 March [No. 216] and Dominions Office cable of 19 March [No. 213]. Message COS (W) 122 gave only those measures considered immediately essential as giving a reasonable standard of security for the islands mentioned and upon which action [was] to be completed forthwith. It did not represent the complete defence plan for New Zealand, a summary of which follows in my next succeeding cable.