THE SECOND DIVISION.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1917, Page 7

THE SECOND DIVISION.

1 A BISHOP'S WARNING TO THE STATE. < In his sermon at a special service in connection with the day of notional ■prayer, held at the Cliristchurcli Roman j Catholic Cathedral, Bishop Brodie, after previewing the progress of the wax, said: , "Coming to our own Dominion, our legisI lators are grappling with questions of I great importance. For example, there is j the question of pensions for the mea of j the Second Division But ■ did they ever j give thought to the magnitude "of the I'Second Division question itself? Whe- ; ther the infinitesimally small help the | Second Division men can give the Eui- : pire will compensate for the Irreparable , harm the loss of those men will cause to i the moral and social life of this iDomii, | ion? And whether the Empire, in her •desire to avenge injustice, would require her youngest Dominion to deplete her strength by such a sacrifice which would reduce her mothers to the state of widowhood and would render her childrei fatherless? The questions of pensioni may be important, but the main question is one of transcending magnitude. In such a matter our statesmen are face to face with a problem which must bo approached with the strictest conscientiousness and with a desire to do the best for the welfare of the Empire and our Dominion."