CORRESPONDENCE.
OPPORTUNITY LOST. (To the Editor). Sir. —Will you allow me space in your valuable paper to say a word in defence of the colonial soldiers who are marrying English girls and who, in my opinion, are being unjustly slandered by our colonial girls. I left Hokitika four years ago to fight- for King and Country. During my first year’s service from my somy first year’s scrvico I received three letters from my so-called friends. During my last three year’s service, I haven’t received a single one. Is it to be wondered at, that thousands of sol diers with similar experience, turn to tlie English girls for sympathy. It is very easy for us to loso interest in a country with which there is no connecting link and the colonial girls have only themselves to blame ij the Anzacs come home with an English bride on their arm, if they come home at a11.,—1 am etc., G. WINTER. Hurdcott, Salisbury, England, July 2Qth., 1918.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1918, Page 2
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164CORRESPONDENCE. Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1918, Page 2
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