THE R.S.A. AND THE ROYAL VISIT.
Many people will regret that there is to be no parade of returned soldiers when' the Duke and Duchess of York are welcomed to the Wairarapa to-mor-row. It has to be admitted, however, that the difficulties standing in the way could not easily have been overcome if they could have been overcome at all. The greatest of these difficulties is that our returned soldiew have returned in the fullest sense of the word. They have beaten their swords into ploughshares, and taken upon themselves family responsibilities, and very few 1 of them are now willing to stand apart as members of a separate group even on the occasion of a welcome to members of the Royal Family. The average returned soldier, in fact, refuses to" be separated from his family on an occasion of this kind. A really representative parade of the returned soldiers of the Wairarapa would have added an impressive note to to-mor-row’s welcome. The conditions that make such a parade impracticable are in themselves so satisfactory, however, that they cannot be regarded as giving much ground for regret.
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Wairarapa Age, 4 March 1927, Page 4
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187THE R.S.A. AND THE ROYAL VISIT. Wairarapa Age, 4 March 1927, Page 4
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