A FINE BRIGADE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13983, 13 January 1916, Page 6

A FINE BRIGADE.

[United Press Association ]

Welington, Jan. 12. (:Mv brigade was magnificent," v,'i:;ien Brigadier Johnston in a letter ♦t-feriing to late operations at Gallipoli. "Xew Zealand mothers may hold tl.i:■;:• heads high indeed. We can all" be pr^ud -of our countrymen, and I thank C-.«-l lam fighting tvi'th them. With the v.:.minted rifles we made the -best fcri.t;ade o~ the Peninsula. The men are fine, .-Vid well trained—yards ahea-d of some o'h'M's. It, is the right policy to train thovi. in Nev/ Zealand, and-only *end them on to us when they are fit to go the ranks. The Maoris who have Ivor: handed ever to n.e are good fight-C'i-s, hard workers, and also arc happy ?-"d-contented."