SIR DOUGLAS MACLEAN
HONORED BY VETERANS (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. The Maori War veterans entertained Sir Douglas -MacLean at their annual social reunion yesterday. The chairman, Mr* W. G. Dennett, in proposing * Sir Douglas Mac Lean's health, alluded to his devoted war service in England daring lour years of the war, as 4 became a worthy son of a worthy sire. He always' worked for the Maori War veterans. , He was instrumental in securing for them old age pensions in addition to military pensions. No one was more worthy of. the honor done him by the King than Sir Douglas. Replying to the toast, Sir Douglas Mac Lean said his only regret was that the late Major Gascoyne had not received from the authorities the New Zealand Cross which he so well deserved. There was a tendency in New Zealand ,to forget these pioneers, whose pluck, sacrifice, and endurance had laid 5 toe foundation 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 pioneers* devotion should be kept in the mind* of the rising generation .to inspire them to live up to the standard set by their enterprise, determination, endurance, tndi sacrifice.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16233, 6 January 1927, Page 7
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211SIR DOUGLAS MACLEAN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16233, 6 January 1927, Page 7
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