A DISCORDANT NOTE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11685, 29 April 1916, Page 9

A DISCORDANT NOTE.

Strong exception was taken by a largo section of the returned soldiers to the fact that some of t-hc-ir numbers saw fit to turn out in the procession in aid of No. G. Queen oi' the Hills. this ai'terncyii, . It was considered that, granted all that r P'uican II utherford lias done for the men at Hru'imer. the soldiers should, on this last day, have rallied round their own Queen (Mrs G. Rhodes). At any rate, a large number, of returned men gathered in front of the Tramway Shelter this afternoon, and -waited for the procession. As the soldiers in the cars went by they were subjected to a running fire of Snnter, such as " What about the Soldiers' Queen?" '' What are you doing there to-day?" 11 What's "Dimcan giving you?" and similar ejaculations calculated' to make the men for whom they were intended pretty uncomfortable. Particular exception was taken at the action of the Hanmer men in putting' up at the C-D.C. rooms on a hoard reserved for the Soldiers' Queen, a. notice of the procession. It did not .reign in there long, being" indignantly torn down as scon as it was noticed. . There were many wordy arguments between tho two factions as to the pros and cons of the action, and it showed that the soldiers as a whole viewed the position in a decidedly hostile spirit.