HONOUR FOE MERCANTILE MARINE.
(To tlio Editor.) —1 notice by your issue on Saturday that in the order of the peace proceseion, the men of the Mercantile. -Marine are placed in a very inconspicuous place, namely, last. Have they done the least to help to win this peace which we are celebrating? Why should city councils, town and road boards friendly societies, trade unions, etc., be placed before men who every day for the last five years nearly have risked their lives in the Empire's cause. 1 think they should be placed in a position of honour in the procession viz., second only to the men who fought. I was a sailor for twelve years, and a soldier for three ye:irs, and I consider it a slur on' the sailors who have so nobly "carried 1 on" in spite of the obstacles in their way, to put thorn last in a procession where they should have a premier place.' —I am, etc., BRIXY. I
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 167, 15 July 1919, Page 7
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