SECOND DIVISION
* • BISHOP BRODIE'S PROTEST. THINKS MARRIEiTmEN OUGHT NOT TO BE " SACRIFICED." [Specul to the ' Star.'] CHRISTCHURCH, October 8. In tho course of a 6emion yesterday Bishop Brodio (head of the Catholic Church in Canterbury) said:—Our legislators are grappling with questions of great importance—for example, ponsions for the men of the Second Division. But did they ever give thought to the magnitude of the Second Division question itself? Whether they, are justified in insisting on this universal divorce; whether the infinitesimally small help the Second Division men can give the Empire will compensate for the irreparable harm the loss of these men will cause to the moral and social life of this Dominion ; and whether the Empire, in her desire to avenge injustice, would require her youngest Dominion to deplete her strength by such sacrifice, which would reduce her mothers to a state of widowhood, and would render her children fatherless ? Yes, the question of pensions may be important, but the main question is one of transcending magnitudo in such a matter occasioned by this great war.' Our statesmen are face to face with a problem which must be approached with the strictest conscientiousness, and with tho desire to do the best for the welfare of the Empire and our Dominion.
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Evening Star, Issue 16549, 8 October 1917, Page 8
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211SECOND DIVISION Evening Star, Issue 16549, 8 October 1917, Page 8
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