LEAVE FOR MAIN BODY MEN
Sir, —Can you tell me who is responsible for the unfair treatment our Main Body men received regarding their leave to England? Mr. Massey andSir Joseph -Ward are in England, having a good time apparently: have.they sons in the Main Body, I wonder? In any case, one would look to them to see our boys who responded first to their Empire's call would at least get leave first, before the short service boys. They were promised it when they went to France.
r sympathise with the parents who have written on this subject. Sly son went -with the Main Body, was at the landing and evacuation at Gallipbli. and has been' steadily with his regiment in.Franco since they went there. He only got his ten days' leave to England about .the the end of last January. Needless to .say, Ihave felt indignant at this treatment for some time, though never a complaint from the boys have I received.
Do they want to crush the spirit out of our brave boys, whose ■ physical strength has held out through all their hardships, and those Main Ewiy men did have hardships; and want or'oiKanisation to contend with, we know, Ona mother refers to commissions. "Shese wo also know are not always , sained through worth and experience, but our boys are colonels in our eyes, and we know they- have done .their duty. I do not worry about the fluted tunics and decorations, though every mother would be glad to know her son was, having a change of menu. ' Let the' authorities be humane, however, and give the nerves of lliese bova rest, away'from the guns, and a good holiday in the summer time to see the, beauties of England. They want io be in at the finish, but let them feel their long service, entitles thero to thS? sopreciation to hearteii them up for ts* final struggle. Let them feel that f!ev Zealand has not forgotten them, and that they will have a square deal from the little'country they wore proud to see come to the fore so readily, as readily as they were prepared to sacrifice anything in their desire to be away with the Main Body.—l am, etc., ANOTHER MOTHER.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3053, 14 April 1917, Page 10
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374LEAVE FOR MAIN BODY MEN Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3053, 14 April 1917, Page 10
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