NATIONAL BANK SOLDIERS.
GRAXT OP £100 TO 'SERGEANT BAaSETT.
LONDON, July 4. No fewer than 90 men ontlie New Zealand staff, mid 75 per cent, of the London staff, of the National BfraJt-r of New Zealand, are serving with thY colore. TXvo members of the "Dominion staff have been decorated for great bravery m the, field— namely, 0. R. U. Basset t (Auckland), 'who won the Victoria Gross, and Corporal B. N. Tavendcr (Christchurch), Avho .worn the D.C.M. Mir Robert Logan, on; - behalf of the $ii*ectors and. slmi-eholders o£ the bantc, n;t to-day's' meeting in' London, congratulated these young men on their well-deserved honor. And his statement that a grant of £100 had been made to Rassett as a mark, of their appreciation of hja ,distingxrish)P|d-,c6nd\ict ;was r greet9cl with' loud .applause. ' '• ' •;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14074, 18 August 1916, Page 5
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132NATIONAL BANK SOLDIERS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14074, 18 August 1916, Page 5
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