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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 31 December 1915, Page 5

It. was learned-aboard the Moana" on her arrival from-San Francisco, says the "Post," that the 40 young men'she carried with /her on her last trip from New Zealand, who ■ obviously left here to •"■ escape any "military duties that might be imposed oh them in the future, gained some brief in San Francisco under the aegis of nondescript "peace societies. '>' But they soon dropped but of'■ sight.'.. One newspaper in San Francisco sagely suggested that British citizens who had left'their country in time of-trouble were not likely to be very use-ful-to the United States.

The well-known American Negro Booker T. Washington died recently. He was borh a slave, arid when. Lincoln signed (the proclamation' freeing al slaves, Booker Washington was among those who-went ont into -the world free men. "From the most, desolate and humble surroundings, he worked his way up, and when, one day, a President of the TJnited States welcomed him as a. guest at the White-House, he became the recognised, as he had long been the actual, leader of the negro people in the great Republic. As a boy he worked long hours in a salt mine, and when only 12 years of age walked many miles to enter a school. -While at school he had to earn his living by working as a janitor. And while' 1 yet a boy ho conceived the .idea that, the salvation of the negro race could only be gained by teaching it useful trades. In that humble way the negro lad started out •upon his great educational career. In •time Harvard was honoured in honouring him and Dartmouth" College conferred upon) him the degree of doctor of laws. ■-■:■■

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