PRESENTATION IN LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17141, 22 April 1919, Page 5

PRESENTATION IN LONDON.

NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS' CLUB. [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, March 7. Before leavirg for New Zealand, Brig.Gen. G. S. Richardson was asked to make a presentation on behalf of the men of the N.Z.E.F. to Mr. R. H. Nolan, C.8.E,, honorary secretiry of the New Zealand Soldiers' Club in Russell Square, and to ! Miss Ethel M. Burnett, who has been one of his principal helpers ever since the club was formed. There was a gathering of a hundred or so of the voluntary workers and several members of the comi mittee and of the New Zealand Red Cross. General Richardson said that in this matter he eou'd really speak from the bottom of hie heart. When the men came to France from Gallipoli he and '■ others had strongly urged that New Zealand should put up its own institution and look after its own men in London. | Mr. Nolan had done this in a splendid ! way and he and those working with hirn had made themselves to a very great extent the representatives of the parents of the boys. As a father he could realise what it meant to a boy to be able to go to a place like this in London which wp.s as nearly as possible a home to him, and to find people like Mr. Nolan and Miss Burnett and the other ladies who we/e jin every respect their friends. He was quite sure that, thousands of men when they looked back upon the war would have happy visions of this particular institulion where tiny were greeted as friends and comrades and almost as relatives were well-looked after and wel -fed so that there was no necessity for them to loiter about this streets. ... General Richardson then presented *J 8 ° Burnett with «i illuminated address and a pS of sovereigns; to Mr. Nolan he preseated is illuminated uddreM.