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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1919, Page 6

The fact that 1500 men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force - ’who enlisted in 1914 and 1915 have left London upon their return to New Zealand has aroused considerable interest, and the question not unnaturally is being asked as to whether they will be tendered a special reception. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr J. P. Luke, C.M.G., MlFj, in referring to the matter, says the Post, said that B the steamer made Wellington, her first port of call—and he hoped she would—nothing( should stand in the way* of giving hese men a recepion fitting the great work they had done for King and country. It would be his duty to interest the citizens in according the 'boys who answered the first call so nobly and so cheerfully a brilliant and cordial reception on their arrival. His Worship expressed the hope that other soldiers who had returned would not feel disgruntled at the proposal. It would be the last thing in the world to occur to him to offend any man who had honourably worn the King’s uniform, but t/hose of the Main Body, who had won right through from the first landing at Gallipoli to the taking of Le Quesnoy (in France) o r the roundup of the Turkish Armyi in the Valley of the Jordan, deserved' the honour of a : special recejfep,, and it would be given them.

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