WELCOME TO SOLDIERS
ENTERTAINED AT MORNING TEA. Some 200 returned soldiers from the battlefields of Flanders returned to Wellington on Saturday morning, and though the weather was wretchedly wet and cold (in spite of the Government Meteorologist's prediction that it would be other* wfse) there was a large muster of relatives and friends to give the "boys' , who have "done their bit" as Wy a *d, come as circumstances permitted. Among • those present were the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) and Mrs. Luke, • and with •his usual foresight and consideration His Worship Ld arranged for three special tramcars to be in attendance to convey the men and their relatives into the cilv a provision that was very, heartily appreciated by the men and their people. The Mayor and Mayoress invited them all to take morning lea with then) at the Marble Bar in Manner., Street, and •ibniit fifty of the men responded, and a very pleasurable, hour was spent over the teacups. Most of the men of the draft for the south continued their homeward way on Saturday evening. The Y.M.C.A. was represented at t*e reception by Field Secretaries A. tt. Sansum and W. Copland.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3131, 9 July 1917, Page 4
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195WELCOME TO SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3131, 9 July 1917, Page 4
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