MISUSE OF "ANZAC."
NAME OF A NEW CLOTH. RETURNED SOLDIERS PROTEST. IVX TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TAUEANGA. Saturday. In his address at the Anzac Day memorial service yesterday, the Rev. F. L. Frost, said that he had noticed in tha newspapers recently that a British firm of manufacturers had adopted the name " Anzac " for & particular make of cloth. This, he said, was extremely regrettable, and he feli that a strong protest should be made against such a. use of the name. He submitted the following motion to the men: " That this parade of returned soldiers sends its protest by telegram to the Prime Minister, through Mr. C. E. Macmillan, M.P., against the use of the word Anzac as the name of a new material and asks him to take immediate steps, through the High Commissioner, to have the use of the word in that connection Stopped, and that, if possible, its import*, tion to New Zealand be prohibited." The motion was unanimously carried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18694, 28 April 1924, Page 6
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