PATRIOTIC SOCIETY’S POSITION
STATEMENT by chairman,
Numerous inquiries have been made as to what the Patriotic Society is doing in connection with the welcome. To a “Times” representative yesterday evening the chairman (Mr'H. G. Hill) stated that he had received a telegram at 7.45 p.m., asking him, his wife, the members of the executive of the society, and .their wives, to attend the function in the Town Hall to-day. He could not speak on behalf of the executive—it was too late in the day to get into touch with them—but he was surprised at the tardy manner in which the society had been approached. It was anxious to assist in giving a royal welcome to the returning 'soldiers, .but its help was evidently not needed. Tho society would have been pleased to make arrangements to decorate the streets with the large quantity of bunting used in the Carnival procession, but it had no locus standi in tlfe welcome. The .society, concluded Mr Hill, had decided to take no part at ail in the welcome as it had received no invitation to do so.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9096, 15 July 1915, Page 7
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183PATRIOTIC SOCIETY’S POSITION New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9096, 15 July 1915, Page 7
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