The Call

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 May 1915, Page 3

The Call

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Wellington. .M;iv 1). Discussing the question ol" ivcruiting tUday, the Hon. J. AIl.-n said:--41 had'not already registered. and T list of casualties circulated throughout the city to-day, I should fee*"that the call had come to me in molt urgent terms. It I hadn't already done so, I should go straight «way and enlist. Ido not think that . the country has really realised how tremendous a job ivo have in hand and how we have to he filled up by those who are here and fit to go. and who have not yet gone. I can not believe it possible that a man who is fit to go does not want to go. The list of casualties that we have received ought to stimulate recruiting immensely- That is the experience everywhere else, and I have no doubt will be the same in New Zealand," As'to the dependents of those killed and wounded, he added, the Government Could do no more until legislation already on the Statute Book was amended next session. The dependents of men kille dwonld be provided for. Up to the present the Government had taken the course of paying to the dependents of a man who had been killed the pay he had allocated to those he had left behind him. That paj would be continued for 20 weeks, or until the .pension to dependents was fixed. He thought that was a fair thing.