THE SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3101, 4 June 1917, Page 8

THE SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

Sir,—lt was with some interest and a great deal of disgust that I read ,in 'Thk Dominion yesterday a scries of questions that the Second Division League of Wellington propose to put, or have put, to tho Minister o£ Defence, whose work in this war as far as little New Zealand stands in it, will stand out in high relief when the history of the greatest of all campaigns come to be written. They want to know this, and they want to know that, giving one the impression that tbey believe that the Minister wnhes ouly to find the easiest way out, when I am sure ho wishes only one thing—tho easiest way to help old England to win out. And all tho time they prato cf their loyalty and preparedness for the finest duty of man to his country. The Second Division League, as far as I am able to judge from its printed reports, appears to be an association of naggers, whose solo desire is to present all the o'-ataol. s they can invent to prevent the Minister from realising for war purposes tho man strength of New Zealand. Sacrifices we shall all havo to make before .the Germauio Powers lie crumbled ill the dust, and it should be tho last part for anyone to do ought that will make more difficult tho task those in authority ore doing to the very best of thoir ability. Tho country is unfortunately cursed with naggers of all sorts and conditions—coal workers, Civil Servants, shirkers, exploiters, and the Edisonian mind behind the Second Division League, and all seem to bo bont in opposing the win-the-war idea, which, after all, is the ouly thing that matters at tho present time. Mistakes have been made—to err is human— but this continual nagging, if prosecuted generally 'throughout tho Empire, is one of tho factors ihat is going to piolong the war that we all wish to soe ended in victory and honour. —I am, etc., CITIZEN.