AN OHAKUNE FUNCTION.
TWO BE AVE CITIZENS. ... ~ - RETURN FROM THE WAR.: ~ A CIVIC RECEPTION. - :'.,/ ; A civic welcome to returned wounded and invalided soldiers was held in the Town Hall, O-hakune, yesterday (Monday). His Worship the. Mayor. (Mr. J. A. Baker) addressed the returned men, Gunner Norman Hatfield and Staff-Sergeant-Major N. C. :Sheppard. These men. Avho it was Ohakune's, privilege to own as ■ fellow-country-men and citizens, had brought: e?er-. lasting honour to their homes and to the country in they live. They were the men who had taken part in what has been well named "The Impossible, 5 ' on that 25th of April, which will ever live as a day that New Zealand and Australia did for their Empire what has never eomplished in any other Avar. s**} Norman Hatfield was one of those first volunteers who left here with the main body, and is the grandson of Ohakune's pioneer settler, Captain Hatfield. (To be continued by uiail).
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 8, 11 January 1916, Page 4
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157AN OHAKUNE FUNCTION. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 8, 11 January 1916, Page 4
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