WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. 1950-04-19. GROUP AT THE CEREMONY OF PRESENTATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN FLAG ...

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. 1950-04-19. GROUP AT THE CEREMONY OF PRESENTATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN FLAG TO THE NEW ZEALAND RETURNED SERVICES' ASSOCIATION. LEFT TO RIGHT:- RT. HONOURABLE S. G. HOLLAND, PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND; MR A. R. CUTLER VC, AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER IN NEW ZEALAND, WHO MADE THE PRESENTATION; LIEUTENANT COLONEL C. J. W. FARNINTON MBE DCM, LEADER OF THE AUSTRALIAN R.S.L. ANZAC DELEGATION TO NEW ZEALAND; MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HOWARD KIPPENBERGER KBE CB DSO, DOMINION PRESIDENT OF THE NEW ZEALAND RETURNED SERVICES' ASSOCIATION; AND THE RT. HONOURABLE P. FRASER, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT. THE FLAG WAS A GIFT OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT IN RETURN FOR THE GESTURE OF MR. P. FRASER, WHO, WHEN PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND IN 1948, PRESENTED NEW ZEALAND FLAGS TO AN AUSTRALIAN R.S.I. ANZAC DELEGATION WHO WERE VISITING NEW ZEALAND IN THAT YEAR.