Motions — Battle of Passchendaele—Centenary

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I seek leave to move a motion without notice and without debate to mark the centennial last month of the Battle of Passchendaele.

💬 Mr SPEAKER: Is there any objection to that course of action being followed? There is none.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I move, That this House note the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele in the First World War, and remember the loss of 843 New Zealand soldiers in one day, 12 October 1917—the blackest in New Zealand’s military history.

Motion agreed to.

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