COMPULSION THE REMEDY.
Si r ,—"A Would-Be Volunteer" points out a very real obstacle to farmers enlisting—he cannot leave his farm, and it is nearly impossible to sell. Surely it is up to the Government to protect the farmer in some way. He cannot enlist, and is therefore very often looked upon as . a shirker, which word should never have been introduced to New Zealand. When the Government wakes up and rubs its eyes, it will bring in compulsion, so that the shirker will he called upon to "do his bit." But, alas, by then most of the willing men will have enlisted, including hundreds who really should not have done _ so. After compulsion comes exemptions. ■Who. is it being exempted? Why, the "hang-back 'shirker,"-who is left behind by the voluntary system, the very man we ought io catch now.--T am, etc., A WOULD-BE VOLUNTEER, NO. 2.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2729, 25 March 1916, Page 14
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147COMPULSION THE REMEDY. Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2729, 25 March 1916, Page 14
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