GALLIPOLI HEIIOES A

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2551, 27 August 1915, Page 8

GALLIPOLI HEIIOES A

"SOME . OF. THE BEST MEN OF THE ■■; ..' RACE." • • Tlie Right Hon. AV..F. Jlnssey, in moving the adjournment of the House of Representatives last -evening after the Financial Statement had been read, said, that he desired to say a few words on a subject which was uppermost in the mjnds of all. There was no doubt that the news which had reached hero during the past few days had brought sorrow and mourning into almost every quarter of the Dominion. . They had not escaped in the House of Representatives, for during the. last few; days several members liad been notified that sons and had fallen- at the front. That afternoon Mr. Sykes, : member for "Masterton, had Te-; ceiveti news of the loss of a son; a few days before'that Mt. Jennings, member for Taumarunui, was notified that his son had gone; . Mr. Stathum'-'.had heard th'at liis brother had gone, and a week or two before that the Defence Minister was ; notified of tho loss. of a son. Speaking to the parents who had been-bereav-ed, h'e said that they knew their sons had died for us; died doing (heir duty for their country and Empire. When we sent those noble, patriotic and adventurous youths-away, some months ago we thought we were,saying good-bye to everyday citizens, but ire realised now that we. had been saying good-bye to heroes. (Hear, : hear.) Tne men who landed at Gallipoli and climbed the heights against shot and shell such as British 1 soldiers seldom experienced, would go down to history as some of the best men of the race. Tlio same could with regard to the Maoris, and 1 we wei'e just as proud: of them as of men of our own race. (Applause.) In spite, of the events of the last;few days, the people of New Zealand, the same as .people of other parts .of the . Empire, would go, forward with the steady determination to carry tho war- on .until peace was secured, and until ;it was made impossible for the German nation and its leader to repeat the foul deeds of the last twelve months. He extended ■ sympathy to his' fellow- ; members in their bereavement, 1 and to the parents throughout- the,, country who had received news of the. deaths of their loved 'ones. . - ; '. ■ '