Billets Needed For Frontiersmen: No Response So Far
On June 4 and 5, about 250 members of the Legion of Frontiersmen will be gathered at Whakatane for the annual Dominion conference of the Legion. Their impressions of this place will be carried back to their home districts, into their businesses, their clubs, all their associations.
But it begins to look as though 40 of those men are going home to say they could not even find any place to sleep here. There has been no response to the Legion’s appeals for billeting. Citizens need have no qualms about opening their homes to these men. Only people of the very best character and unimpeachable integrity can get into the Legion. These are men it should be counted a privilege to know. They are men who, without hope of or wish for reward, have placed themselves voluntarily at the service of their districts and their country in any emergency. There are many ways in which the Legion serves this community, never counting the cost or the risk. For the sake of our town’s reputation elsewhere, and as an expression of appreciation of what they do for us, is it too much to ask us to do this little thing for them?
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 88, 18 May 1949, Page 5
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209Billets Needed For Frontiersmen: No Response So Far Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 88, 18 May 1949, Page 5
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