OBLIGATIONS MUST BE MET
« 30,000 MEN THIS YEAR. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston North, January 6. Speaking at a gathering of towns* pittple who attended the farewell to Lieut. Jacobs to-night, the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) said New Zealand had sent thirty-one thousand men to the front, twelve thousand were in camp, and two thousand were going in. To fulfil our obligation to the Imperial authorities this, year, another thirty thousand, he believed, would be forthcoming. Personally he would liCe to see them go by the voluntary system. It would not be satisfactory to see some go as volunteers and some as conscripts, but if necessary it might como to that. He believed it would have been a splendid tiling if we originally had gone in for national service. He believed in the principle 'of national service, and if we could not get the thirty thousand men this year by the existing system we must, to fulfil a solemn undertaking, get tliera by another method. Civilisation was trembling in the balance, and we must place in the scale every ounce of_ energy, courage, and wealth. The Prime Minister's remarks were loudly applauded.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2663, 7 January 1916, Page 4
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195OBLIGATIONS MUST BE MET Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2663, 7 January 1916, Page 4
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