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Southland Times, Issue 18077, 2 May 1919, Page 6

In proposing the toast of “The Expeditionary Forces” at the Union Rowing Club’s annual smoke concert on Saturday night, says the Christchurch Press, Mr G. Mason, in suitable words, welcomed back members of the club who had been to the war, and made feeling reference to the 13 members of the club who had died in their country’s service. Speaking with regard to the returned men, he said if the war had done no other good it had done an enormous amount in killing class prejudice. In the trenches clerks and labourers, toilers and employers, had gathered together in the common cause, and the finest friendships had been formed among them. Mistaken ideas of class distinction and prejudice so long nourished at Home had been swept away in the brotherhood of the firing line, and the soldiers came back with broader outlooks and better education than what they would ever have received had they remained at home in their peaceful occupations. And because of their broadened minds and better education, the men who come back have a duty devolving on them —the duty of helping to clear away the class differences that still exist in their home country. The speaker’s remarks met with general approval. ,