AN INGLEWOOD WELCOME.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1920, Page 3

AN INGLEWOOD WELCOME.

TO RETURNED FORESTE V SOLDIERS. (From a Correspondent.) The welcome home social to the returned soldier members of Court luglewood Forest, held in the Town Hall, Inglewood, on Thursday night, was a marked success, about three • hundred member-* and friends being present. Bro. T. Lindsay, C.R., and other officers of the Court, were in attendance. Music for the dancing, which was the order of the night, was supplied by Miss Curd's orchestra, and Bros. R. Geddes, P.D.C.R., and C. Hen-wood carried out the duties of M.U most efficiently, the dance being pronounced to be the best held here for a long time. The sumptuous supper and other refreshments were provided by Mrs. Howell, of tiie Egmont Dining Rooms. During the evening Bro. R. Fawcett, P.D.C.R., in welcoming the re- ' turned soldiers present, said that seventy ' ■members of Court Inglewood had gone to ' the front to fight for homo and freedom. • Of these, 15 had been killed in action or ' died from wounds or sickness, and it was a sacred duty to their memory to see to it that their sacrifice had not been in ! vain; also to try to make it so that those who,, though they had not actually ( d-ifid for the cause, had come back, in any , way, less efficient , than they left, and all other returned soldier's t had good chances to enjoy the blessings v for which they had fought and suffered. ( Amongst the members of Court Ingle- ; wood Forest, who went to the front and i happily returned, is Captain H. Ken- t nedy, M.C., a- son of our former well- i known townsman, Mr. G. 8. Kennedy, f now of Auckland, a native born r woodian. D i -—'" ' - _. t