FIGHTING FOR OUR RACE.
(PflOH OUB TUPORTER ) WELLINGTON, Oct. 12. Tho War Pensions Bill was passed in the Council this afternoon, A note that has not been hoard in the Lower House was sounded during' the debate, lion McGinnitv, who had the support of other speaksaid ho thought there was a tendency to say too much about the self-sacrifice of the soldiers. The men were fighting for themselves and for their children as much as for any other section of tho community, and they 'were serving because the call to a war had come in the time of their manhood's prime. It had beeii the fortune of other generations to have to fight for their race.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10106, 13 October 1917, Page 5
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116FIGHTING FOR OUR RACE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10106, 13 October 1917, Page 5
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