Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1915. PATRIOTIC PROPOSALS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 12 June 1915, Page 4

Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1915. PATRIOTIC PROPOSALS.

(With which is incorporated The Ta!« hape Post una Waimarlne News.)

The matter of raising funds for patriotic purposes Avas very seriously discussed at a meeting of the Taihape District Patriotic Committee held yesterday afternoon. Every member present realised the importance and need of prompt action. It was recognised that overlapping effort would be likely to detrimentaly affect what might and ought to be done to Taihape's credit. Tickets, in shoals, are being sent into the town and district from Carnival Queen Competitions in other parts of the Dominion, and also in aid of obects other than such competitions. By allowing collections to intervene before this district makes its supreme effort — an effort in which everyone can take a pleasant part without being pressed to contribute more than what is reasonable and just—will prejudice, and be mischievous and hurtful to what should be done locally, and the Committee is now determined to take such steps as will set the Taihape patriotic ball rolling in the right drection. As will be seen from a report of yesterday's meeting in another column, ,it is suggested that a patriotic carnival be held here, aecoraparded by the usual 'competition for Quceiiship; but as the Committee desires that -ike whole 'community shall be consulted" about the matter they have decided' to call a public meeting for next Wednesday evening, when it; is hoped, for tie good name of the; whole territory there will be a patr'i- i otic gathering (lommerMsurate with the: overwhelmingly sVrions ami critical 'Cir- -j cumntances. Many have gone from this district to fight for the continuity of our Empire; what could have indue- 1 od these men to take the attendant.' risks? Whatever thVmghtlesg people i | may 'hav« said in the A T ery early stages of the 'war there is no xoom for flip- | paney -now. The men go.lng from New Zealand kn<.w just the nitnre of the helllgh struggle they are going to take part in; they know they may never gee parents or friends again in this life; that if they 4o eome back their constitutions may be ruined, they may be rendered weaktifigs, . and ifceir life hencefeftrth made" a hurd&ft id 'thesj;;

iliUt they may return 'mines' limbn andT, pthcwi«o JBapafred' for following; ?t%e|l; vocations and old methods \pt Jife. Every mail that volunteers " novKai £ full realisation of this and they Jcnow that hundreds of them are coming baclf .ra-.iv.c3 or> 3 'nred. TUon Vwfcat 1,3'

duty of everyone of us who cannot 1 servo in the fightiug line? We do not believe that a single member of this 'community underestimates that flutythat, has fallen upon him to see -that everything possible must, if only from a purely humanitarian point ei view, i be dtmfe *o ensure the utmost attention and degree of comfort for those who arc -sure to return te us suffering from | the 'Effects of war and privation. Bowie of out men are now prisoners in TutTcis:h fends, some have ru-m-ed constitutions, others have been maimed, and ; soree of these are now on the 'way Tsssd? to this country :«xr4 may be with lus any day. We want to show "them, ) when they return, the appreciation with \ which we view their motive for the \ sacrifice they have -made, and to do lj this we must be prepared. In this pre- • paration every man and woman in the community can contribute in some way, ■ if only by attending the public meeting that tho Patriotic Committee is inviting them to and thereby showing their sympathy. There are those whose 1 circumstances dp not permit them to make sacrifices *tf money, "but they can let their feelings have full play and contribute the enthusiasm which is a necessary concomitant to supreme 1 success in whatever course the public meeting may decide upon. Almost in ' all other towns' in the Dominion —many of them much smaller than Taihape — people have displayed their patriotism in no unmistakeablc way. We know that Taihape is the home of a patriotism that will not rank second to that of any community in the Empire, and now that the Patriotic Committee ie taking everybody into, its confidence, and inviting them to voice their views, we believe there will be such a revelation of feeling that will put the question of Taihape's patriotism out of all . question for ever. It is expected that the Town Hall will present evidence of the loyal and generous " support that may be expected towards doing all that should be done for our lads when they return to us from the front.