"NO SLACKENING"
REINFORCEMENTS TO CONTINUE.
A statement that persistent rumours were in civcu.luilan to the effect that no more, men would he required by way of reinforcements after the Sixteenth Reinforcements went was lhnde in the .House of Representatives yesterday By Mr. W. If. Viold, who asked the Priu'ie Minister to make a statement on the point, as recruiting; was being affected. The Right Hon. \W j". Mnssey (Prime minister) replied that no information to this effect had reached the Government. His own opinion—Riven for what it was worth—-was that reinforcements would ho required for a good many months to come. As a matter of fact iie lhou;,'ht it would be a very serious mistake at this stage of the war to think of anything in the way of a slackening off in the assistance New Zealand was giving the Imperial Government. This declaration was greeted with loud "hear, horns'' from all quarters of the. House.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2818, 8 July 1916, Page 10
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156"NO SLACKENING" Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2818, 8 July 1916, Page 10
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