RETURNED SOLDIERS
Sir, —The letter in your issue of April 29 signed "Gallipoli" appeals to mo, for I was one of the Now Zeatanders who took part in entertaining the New Zealand mounted troops who passed through Sydney during the war years. I am sure I appreciate the glorious aspect of our New Zealand War Memorial as enthusiastically as anyone, but I sometimes think that we would, in the truest sense, be honouring those men who honoured us by securing the security of the last 20 years for us, if we had set up some kind of memorial which would give them their due. The remuneration they received during the war was a mere nothing compared with the value to us of what they did; it certainly gave them no opportunity of putting anything by for their old age. Fit and able returned men should surely not be permitted to stand in the ranks of the unemployed. If we had built a cottage settlement we would at least put a roof over their heads in their declining years. EX-Secretary, N. Z. S. R.S.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22098, 2 May 1935, Page 15
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183RETURNED SOLDIERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22098, 2 May 1935, Page 15
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