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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1915, Page 5

As showing the camaraderie, that exists amongst footballers the following from tlic Sydney Daily Telegraph is interesting. Tlu> f!l(«be Rugby Union has lost 51 of its members, killed in action at ilie Dardanelles, amongst them being a Taranaki boy The secretary of the club, Mr. McCarthy, at a recent | meeting received a letter from the (father of one of the club members, who died from wounds received at the landing on April 2", Elwood, before leaving with the Australian contingent for the front, left his possessions in the care of the secretary, who on news of his death started a search for his parents, whom he discovered were living at Kaeaea (King Country). Deceased's possessions were forwarded by the club to Mr. Khvood, who replied' thanking the club for the troivble taken, and said: "The boy was only 23. However, he has made the sacrifice like hundreds more of his brave comrades. Hard as it has been to part with him, he died a hero's death—a true Britisher like his forbears." Mr. TClwood, in a lettor to the M.P for Taumarunui, contrasts the action of the Sydney football club with the delay and red 'tapeism of the Government of this Dominion in dealing with an insurance policy that hi* son had taken out before he left "New Zealand. Though his son has been dead over six months the affair is still nisettled.

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