"The returned soldi era are uot going to allow their names to be used in connection with any outside project to abstract, money from the pockets of the, public," said Mr. 0. T. J. Alpers at a meeting of the Eeturned Soldiers' Memorial Hall Fund Committee i\\ Christchurch. "Anyone who wants to drag in their name into any such project will be promptly turned down, and there is going fto be no mlsuße of this namu. If any ; name has been scandalously misused during the last yea)- or two it is that of the Belgians. We have had 'Belgian buns,' 'Belgian biscuits,' 'Belgian sausage,' and all that kind of thing, and the practice has been simply scandalous and sickeni ing. AW iirs going to see to it that the | soldiers' name is not traded on."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 155, 28 December 1918, Page 7
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