THE SPIRIT AND THE GIFT.
Sir, —In making a gift from the people of Auckland to our wounded soldiers and their dependants I do hope that we will do all in our power to make it clear that the gift is a free-will offering of the people and an ungrudging, if inadequate, recognition of the debt we owe them. Do not let us be guilty of the "betise" of telling them that we cannot raise money for them unless we offer people a quid pro quo for their gift. The gift is as nothing compared with the spirit in which it is given, and to think otherwise is to say in effect that we know our soldiers do _ not care a jot whether the money is given grudgingly or ungrudingly fdnce it is the dollars they are after. Surely this would be a gratuitous and wholly undeserved insult to offer those who have served tine State so nobly and so well, and a still more unfeeling insult to bereaved relatives who are sorrowing in their loss. W. G. Monckton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16034, 28 September 1915, Page 4
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