LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE WELCOME HOME FURTHER SUGGESTIONS. .Sir, -In the discussion by the council °* welcome to be given to the boys ot thei Main Body arriving by tho Hororata I was glad to read that Councillor .Barber objected to the men marching a Kliort distance through the streets; it would be misery to both the boys and their parents. I have a boy returning by this draft who left with'the Fifth Reinforcements, and went through that dreadful time on Gallipoli. He lias been away from us threo years and eight months, and I can assure you as' soon as my wife and J. can get hold of him when he leaves tho ship there will not lie much chance of his joining in a march, and I think other -parents (ire of the same opinion. We will still have three more sons to return after ho arrives If you ... want- ■to make any' distinction between tho Main Body and the others on board I would suggest that all tho Main Body men wear their' ribbons and be allowed to disembark first, then let a spaco of (say) ten minutes or n. quarter of an hour elapse before the others disembark —I am, etc,, „ ANXIOUS PARENT. March 7.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 140, 8 March 1919, Page 7
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209LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 140, 8 March 1919, Page 7
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