LECTURE TO PRISONERS.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT WAR. . The first of the New Year being a holiday [ for prisoners, Mr. F. 6. Ewington, with the special permission of the Justice Department, gave the inmates of Mount Eden Gaol an instructive lecture on the great \ > war yesterday afternoon. Mr. Win. Brac- | kenrigg,'one of the gaol chaplains, was in j the chair. i The men sang " God Save the King," and the organist played the Marseillaise and the Russian National Anthem. Two hundred men were present. They listened with close attention for an hour and aquarter while Mr. Ewington made it clear what the real issues were. He showed that there was no other nation which exceeded , Britain in its care of the weak, the destitute, and oppressed. When he asked the young men present whether, if they , were free, they would not consider it their duty and privilege to stand shoulder to shoulder with the New Zealanders who had gone to the front In defence of the Mother Land and right, they gave their answer in prolonged applause. The lecturer traced the history of the war, and gave them an epitome of what the contending powers had done. The prisoners accorded Mr. Evringlon a hearty vote of thanks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15807, 2 January 1915, Page 3
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