AGAINST ANZAC SPIRIT
WRANGLING OVER TRADE ORANGES AND POTATOES APPEAL FOR SETTLEMENT (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A suggestion that returned soldiers' organisations in New Zealand and Australia should take a hand in trying to bring about a settlement of the dispute between the Dominion and the Commonwealth regarding potatoes and oranges, was made bv Mr. \V. F. Leadley, the president of'the Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association, at the annual reunion of the Australian Imperial Forces Association on Saturday evening. 'Tear by year this "dispute drags on and the people of both countries arc suffering in'consequence." lie said. '''Jo my mind, the time has. arrived when the Anzacs in New Zealand and' A us-, tralia should make a. determined effort to end this dispute, and I suggest that the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association conference and the conference, of returned soldiers and sailors of the Imperial League of Australia should both pass resolutions strongly urging their respective Government's to settle this, dispute at the earliest possible moment as it- is not shared by I lie people and is contrary to the spirit of Anzac."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 6
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184AGAINST ANZAC SPIRIT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 6
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