" Tangatahaere."

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1922, Page 4

" Tangatahaere."

A—<J > • m~-*r \ U F.RIC.VX LEGION IN NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON. September I. Tli,. Prime .Minister lias sanctioned the establishment of a post or the American Legion of war veterans in New Zealand, under the name of Aotearoa Taiigatahnero “men who travel to the land of the long white cloud.”

‘ New Zealand is the land of the brave and the fair,” says the commander of the new post in bis notification to head, punters in New A oik. “ ‘The land of the brave is well nun it. ed. Remember Gallipoli. Also Raselieiidnclo. The remnant that returned connt themselves under special protection to be able to snv. ‘I am whole.’ New Zealand gave freely of. her best; few returned. As to ‘the land of the fair.’ they are as numerous as in any country with predominant Anglo-Saxon ancestry. New Zealand is ninety-lime per cent. British and white. The loyalty to Great Britain is far more evident than in the larger sections of the Empire on- account of its high concentration. Her cities are up and doing. Her lands are plentiful and fat. Her herds, flocks, dairies and mines cnsuie wealth untold to the future Imperial settlor who wills to work. Wait a bit, Buddy, don't start this way, for, like other countries, New Zealand has her hands full just now, caring for her own boys, and she has already been more generous than any* other nation to them.

“Tile national headquarters wanted me to go ahead and organise Australia,” lie adds. “I told them to look at the nearest geography, and ponder.”