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WAR COMRADESHIP.

NEW ZEALANDER’S GENEROUS OFFER. (Sydney Sun Cables.) (Received March 2, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Mtyxh 1. “Well you never know what "good can come out of war,” said George Taylor, a coal miiier, residing at Walsall, after reading a letter the- Daily News representative handed him offering him .a share in a Now Zealand fortune of twenty thousand pounds. Taylor, who was born in East Africa, served in Franco with the South Staffordshires, and helped, to save the li/e'of a fellow East African corporal, Barglinc, who was wounded at Poperingho. by a bomb droppod from a German aeroplane. Bargliiie after tho war ' inherited an orchard at Eokianga, Auckland, and wrote to the Daily News, asking it to" trace Taylor and hand over..a scialed letter offering him a share in the orchard provided he immigrates to New Zealand. Taylor married! after the' war and has three children. He could scarcely believe the genuineness of Barglirie’s generosity. He said: “I will write to my old friend for further particulars of his handsome offer.' J. am happy enough here, and have dreamed of the sen. I shall never forget tho misery of tho twenty-one days’ voyage to the Dardanelles, and must think twice before making the voyage.”

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16674, 2 March 1925, Page 9

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WAR COMRADESHIP. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16674, 2 March 1925, Page 9

WAR COMRADESHIP. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16674, 2 March 1925, Page 9