Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I

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

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.