A Happy Toast
One of the prettiest incidents in connection with the vijsit of the American fleet to Auckland was that which greeted the close of a dinner given by" the Auckland" Non-commissioned Officers' Club on 'Wednesday of last week. ' The gathering/ says our local morning contemporary, ' was just about to disperse, when Chief Turret-captain Miller, of the United States' warship Vermont, rose and said : "Men, there is but one toast more— a toast which is not on the list-^that of ' Our Mothers.'" The words seemed to have a magical effect, and as the proposer repeated the lines,-" God bless our mothers, wheresoe'er they be, the women who gave their sons to fight upon the sea " one could have heard a pin drop, and the silence did not cease until the 500 men present had again placed their glasses on the table. Then many handkerchiefs were produced, and it was evident that the proposer of the toast had touched a tender chord. '
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New Zealand Tablet, 20 August 1908, Page 22
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162A Happy Toast New Zealand Tablet, 20 August 1908, Page 22
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