WELCOME HOME

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 4

WELCOME HOME

To-day it is Wellingtea's privilege, on behalf of New Zealand, to welcome home another large company of w*r-wom heroes from Gallipoli. Long ife^ of wounded, killed, and missing during the past fortnight have weighed upon many hearts here, but the courage and the resolution of the nation are intensified, not daunted, by the cost of conquest, in the cause of right. When Sir Joseph Ward, in the House of Representatives on Thursday evening, was answering objections to various taxation proposals, he compared the sacrifices of the soldiers— their cheerful payment of health and strength and limbs and life itself— with the payment of money or materials. He referred to the inspiring unselfish patriotism of the protectors, while the protected haggled about this tax or that, for the national purposes of war. Thinking of these brave men, -who offered their power of youth, their strong manhood, without reservation, for their country should be a beneficial exercise for some ,New Zealanders. E»cb survivor from the battle-grounds at G*llipoK has that enviable possession, the knowledge that he has done the full part of a man for his country, and this -can be some comfort for wounds and disablement. Each soldier from the Tahiti to-day can »y: "There was work to do for the Empire, and I have done my share worthfly." New Zealand has many folk who will have to do much before they will be able to apply those words truly to themselves. <