ROLL OF HONOUR UNVEILED

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 281, 22 August 1921, Page 5

ROLL OF HONOUR UNVEILED

TO BAKERS AND PASTRYCOOKS.

At the annual dinner of the combined bakers and pastrycooks on Satuiday evenin" Mr. G. Mitchell, M.P., Tin-, veiled the Roll of Honour of the Bakers U ln his address, Mr. Mitchell eaid that it was a privilege and a pleasure to him the Roll of Honour that the bakers and pastrycooks had erected t the memory of their comrades. In the Great War ho had seen the men; be had seen the hardships they had endured and the sacrifices they had made; and ‘he was very glad to know that the bakers had not forgotten their comrade?. Seventy-two of their members had loft with the Expeditionary Force. Four had been killed in action—E. Cosgrove,, T. McCarthy, T. Mullanr, and A. K. Pallant. About twenty had been cither wounded or gassed. J. Edney had won the D.C.M., and been decorated by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, during his recent visit to tho Dominion. Four ap-. prentices had joined the forces, and R. Andrews, bad died in France. Of fhe members who enlisted only 5 per cent, had been turned down as medically unfit. The membership of the Bakers Union in 1914 was 350. Mr. Mitchell said that he took off his hnt to the holder of the D.C.M., for the honour was obtained only by hard fighting, and diligence in. duty. The D.CM. was next to the Victoria Cross. Soldiers' who had seen the slaughter of war never wanted to put on tho uniform again or take up arms. It was hellish indeed to see the. finest of ths nation’s manhood mangled in war. I here were 17,000 New Zealand men lying onforeign battlefields, and they had died, to save the nation and to save tho Empire. It was tho duty of those who. j remained to see that they did not dissi. pate the empire for which so many had sacrificed their lives. Although the British would like Io put away their swords they could not turn them into ploughshares while other nations had theirs on tho grindstone. They were in danger of losing all that was won in the war. They wexp still in battle: they still had to fight tho economic battle, and they "had to fight to win.