"PUBLIC INTERESTS"
Sir, —I notice that the Military Appeal Boards aro in seme, if not all, cases exempting slaughtermen" from military service "as being contrary tq public interests." If one travels about the country, tho unstocked state of many thousands of acres of land (covered with grass one and two feet high) is only too apparent. Hawke's Bay. Poverty Bay, and all up tho Main Trunk line' is particularly to be noticed, and judging from reports these districts aro a type of the most of New Zealand. There seems to be a great shortage of stock everywhere: that is detrimental to "public interests." It would be wise to ceaso killing all female stock of breeding age, and those which later on will he fit for breeding. (I "wonder that those in power have not yet attended to this matter.) If some abler one were to take this matter up it would probably be shown that, if all the stock in New Zealand were left alive, there would not be more than sufficient to stock the lands waiting and prepared. If this be so, we could lvell spare the slaughtermen, and it would bo doubly in "public interests" if they wont. —I am, ete., fl OBSERVER.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 15 January 1917, Page 6
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205"PUBLIC INTERESTS" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 15 January 1917, Page 6
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