Letter from Sir Harry Batterbee, UK High Commissioner [in New Zealand] to Lord Cranborne [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil, later 5th Lord Salisbury], Secretary of State for the Dominions [and Leader of the House of Lords], reporting on VE-Day celebrations in Wellington: national, civic, and religious ceremonies, a tram dispute, the postponement until 9 May New Zealand time, and his thoughts on the reasons for Wellington's "comparatively reserved reaction". [Carbon copy].