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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 July 1915, Page 2

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Much enthusiasm has been shown in dill'erent tow lib througlioiit Australia :u the recruiting movement. In sonic places wristlet watches are being subscribed for and presented to every recruit. There was a flutter of excitement at the Melbourne Town ilall depot (reports the "Age"') when Mr Sam Allen, a well-known bookmaker, minounced that he woidd give £5 e.'ich to the next ten ■men who stepped forward fioin the throng and were accepted asoldiers. Recruiting has slackened off a the time, but directly the offer w.i.-: made there, was a rush of men into the depot. About twenty men answered til > call, and the names ol the first ten wen- noted. The money will be paid when they are established in camp. Mr Allen then informed the recruits tliat lie would give LIOO to tho first < I them who won the Victoria Cross or Pistiiiguished Conduct -Medal. War, from the viewpoint ol the, body is a horror of mutilation, agony and death, says Miss Annie Bcsant, the leader of the Thcosophists. War. irom the viewpoint of the self, is an opportunity to acquire in a lew days, weeks, months, qualities that otherwise wou'd take lives in the winning. From th.it viewpoint, it may be well worth while For to sacrifice the body utterly on the alter of the. country. to_ lace deat.li in the springtime of youth of the ,M II strength of manhood's prime, to risK lifelong mutilation, far worse tha. death, giving up the joy of lithe activity for the trailing step of injured linib or incurable mutilation, what is this but to leap at a bound up the ladder of evolution, to outstep lives oi slow drudgery of growth by one splendid .spring into heroism? A special committee set up to consider the question of the hospital ini'l--supply recommended to the board yesterday:— "The alter w!h the secretaries ol the Education ai d Agricultural Department in connection with the question ol obtaining tin; board's milk supply from the Boy's Training Farm at Weraroa, or Irom the Weraroa -Expeimental Farm, and after fully considering the terms upon which Mr C. 'M. Strand is prepared to lease his dairy farm as a going concern to the board, that the tender oi Mr »Strand be accepted for the supply of milk (Is per gallon) and cream (2s <jd per qjiart) for a period .J two years from April Ist last-—the milk u. be supplied twice daily from Octob <r Ist to April 30th in each year." The recommendation was adopted. — N.Z. Times .