MAORI WAR VETERANS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10436, 6 January 1927, Page 6

MAORI WAR VETERANS.

HONOUR SIR DOUGLAS McLEAX

Electric Telegraph—Press Association HASTINGS. This Day.

Maori Mar veterans entertained Sir Douglas McLean at the annual social re-union yesterday. The chairman, Mr W. Y. Dennett, proposing Sir Douglas McLean’s health, alluded to his devoted war service in England during tbe four years of the war as became a worthy sou of a worthy sire. He always worked for the Maori War veterans; be was instruniental in securing for them the old age pensions. No one was more worthy of the honour done him by the King than Sir Douglas. Replying to the toast of his health the guest said his only regret was that the bite Major Gascoyne had not received from the authorities the New Zealand cross so well deserved. There was a tendency in New Zealand to forget these pioneers whose pluck, sacrifice, and endurance had laid the fbundatiohs of the country's prosperity. The colonisation of New Zealand was one of the greatest episodes in history for individual pluck and enterprise, and the memory of the pioneers’ devotion should be kept in the minds of the rising generation to inspire them to live up to the standard set by their enterprise, determination, endu ar.ee and sacrifice.