SINGLE MEN, DO YOUR DUTY.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2474, 29 May 1915, Page 6

SINGLE MEN, DO YOUR DUTY.

Sir, —Your rcadors should feel grateful to tho amount of valuable space The Dominion is devoting in its columns in enabling the difforent correspondents to express their opinions about the shirkers who decline to respond to the demand for recruits of the able and popular Minister of Defence (the Hon. Jas. Allen). I will therefore esteem it a favour if you will permit mo to i o ' ll t' ,e a S a ' nst t l ' loso w ? 10 are practically showing the white feather. My opinion is that the Hon. James Allen, before he made such a strong appeal to the married, should have "got a list compiled from the last census returns of single men between 20 and 45 in different part sof the Dominion, then tlio names of thoso who are shirking their dutv would soon bo locatcd. If the Minister of Defenco would send his recruiting officers to the various Golf links in Now /ciila nil, and more especially on Saturdays and Sundays, l.lic.v would Imvp no difficulty in _getting the names of of

v/ciilthy young won who aro shirking their duty. Then 1«-1 L)i«>m go to tho ililfuicnl. tnicotines in t.lm Dominion, whom l.li'i totaliHsitor returns arc iiicrßiuiin;.; <luily from tin: money invested b.v tlio thousand!) of .voung ablebodied men who Will find l.ilno for all kinds of pleasure, hut they arc dumb to tlio call of tli<> Kmpire. IJecauso tlioy lmvn v.-ealtliy j)nr<'iiln is no excuso for hundreds of young men who aro deaf and dumb to tho I Jon. .fames Allen's »[»/><ml for inore. men. In this morning l !) iJoitiNio.'f a cubic message from Sydney appeared, litatinc, that Mr. Lobbcim lloiden, brother of Mr. Anthony Hordeni, I.wo of Sydncy'ii wealthiest cilizenii, leave.ii by tlio outgoing mail Kl/:iuii»r to olfor bin services to tho Ituyal Aerial Corps. There is a nohlo oxainplc. for tho wealthy young Now Zcalafi'biiyi who so fnr havo failed to volunteer. Hin;;lo men, do your duty! • I uw, otc., TOO OLD. | Wellington, May 28, 1915. j