RETURNED SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1921, Page 5

RETURNED SOLDIERS.

LORD HAIG’S APPRECIATION. • HOPES TO VISIT DOMINION. By Telegraph.— Press Association Wellington, May 2 Mr. W. E. Leadley, secretary of the Canterbury Returned Soldiers’ Association. who has just returned from the British Empire Conference at Capetown, brought with him the following autograph letter from Earl Haig: Villa Arcadia, Johannesburg, March 23, 1921. My Dear Comrade Leadley,— I take the opportunity of your returning to New 7 Zealand to ask you to give my very hearty greetings to all my old comrades there. I can never forget the very loyal support which they gave me during the most terrible of all wars. I honor the memory of the 17,000 heroes from New Zealand who made the supreme sacrifice in the cause of right and liberty. I trust that those who have been spared to return to their homes are now settling down again and are doing well, I look forward to being able some day to visit your splendid country and to see with my own eyes all the valuable work the people of New Zealand are now doing in co-operation with your Government to repatriate my own comrades.

In conclusion, let me, as Grand President of the 8.E.5.L., thank you for all you have done to bring that organisation into being, and I congratulate you. with all the other delegates, on the success of your labors at the Capetown conference. With all good wishes. Believe me, Yours most truly, (Signed) Haig.