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Mataura Ensign, 24 April 1917, Page 3

The Auckland correspondent of ‘The Post’ telegraphs : —Speaking at Ponsonby, Mr C. J. Parr, M.P., expressed regret that New Zealanders at the front have to a large extent lost their identity as “Anzacs.” When he was in London last summer, said Mr Parr, he found that to the average Englishman the term “Anzac” was exactly synonymous with an Australian. Nearly every Englishman he met had that idea" New Zealanders of fh e Main Body complained in almost bitter terms that the part they had played at Gallipoli was not recognised, or else was forgotten by the. general British public. No one seemed to know that New Zealanders also were Anzn.cs. Australians who fought on Gallipoli 'were permitted the special distinction, of wearingl the letter -A” (for‘‘AhHap’M on the'Bhopiflorvptfap, ||Uf po j-jpeh provision had heap made for New Zealand men, Suph a state of things was most unjust, The' reason we were in the backgrotpfd was that the TLgh Command am! Trip poyernmpnt did not keep our men in the foreground. The British public was not allowed by Mi Andrew Fisher, General; Birdwood, or the: Agents-General of Australia to forget what Australia did at Gallipoli, but one never heard .a . word in London about what our mop did fit Auae.e Cove or Bulya B«y ; Tlpr |}efppce department might well see tliaf opr Gallipoli veterans had (dm right to wear a special mark,

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