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FAREWELLS TO SOLDIERS.

A correspondent (signing "Fireside") writes, deprecating the attitude of representative citizens towards farewell socials to soldiers. He says that the fact that our soldiers are fighting "to save our farms, our shops, pur homes from the enemy, does not appear, to be realised by those who prefer their own fireside to the Town Hall on nights when the district is taking leave of men bound for the Front. He points out that the Committee appointed does it 4 work well, but gets no encoura^emeut whoro it is entitled to look for it.

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