OUR BOYS AT HOME

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10811, 29 January 1921, Page 7

OUR BOYS AT HOME

THANKS FOR KINDNESS APPRECIATION TO HORNCHURCH AND BOURNEAIOUTH. LETTERS TO PREAHER. By Telegraph—Press • Assn. —Copyright Australian and X Z. C"- ' ‘■■iccvif.n. The Prime ALmster (the Right Hon. W. F. Alassey) has received the following letter, dated December 10th, from the Rev. Charles Steer, vicar of Hornchurch, Essex, where the New Zealand Division had. a big convalescent camp during the war: — F&OM HORNCHURCH. “I have to thank you, most sincerely on behalf of my congregation, and the people of Hornchurch in general, for your letter and the testimonial of New Zealand’s thanks, which I have received this morning. I can assure you on behalf of my people that it was a very great pleasure and delight to them to do what they could for the New Zealand men who. came over to fight for the country and Empire. I shall have the testimonial' framed and hung with the New Zealand coat of arms, which your High Commissioner very kindly sent me some time ago, and placed in the church' as a memorial.” FROM BOURNEMOUTH. The following letter has also, been received from the Mayor of Bournemouth (Air Charles H. Cartwright) : “I hate had the honour of laying before the Town Council your letter of March and the accompanying copy of resolutions passed by the Parliament of New Zealand, conveying to the people of jthis country he thank® of the people of the Dominion for the acts of kindness rendered to members of your Expeditionary Force during the war ; and I am instructed by the council to ask .you .to accept this expression of their high appreciation of the sentiments expressed by the resolutions, and to say that any kindnesses rendered by the people of Bournemouth to members of the Dominion Forces were rendered not in response to the dictates of duty, although I am sure these alon«vwould have been sufficient to influence them, hut quite spontaneously as to brothers and fel-low-citizens in arms, united in one great effort on behalf of Christianity and civilisation. I feel, as I am sure do all the members of iny council, that the intimate association of representatives of the Empire from all parts of the. world, must have resulted in a further and closer welding- together of the Greater Britain. The copy of the resolutions which you were so good as to send me has been ordered by the. council to he suitably framed. and hung in an honourable position in the Town Hall.”