Men Wanted

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 August 1915, Page 3

Men Wanted

* E\ THE i'TGHTENG LINE. ihe following let lor from Lieuten-ant-Colonel C. E. li. Mackesy, officer commanding the Auckland Mounted Battalion at the Dardanelles, has been received by Mr 1). \\. jack, Mayor ot \\ hangarei : — 1 hear you are doing splendid work at home. We are all proud und grate-, ful. \\ hangarei has indeed done remarkably well, but there js one tiling 1 should like to point out not of Whangaiei or any other place in particular, aiu 1 opeali as one having authority, iioiu experience: the selection of tnose olieting nas nut been as carefully as it suould have been. Many a one who comes realises suddenly that Jiio old trouble has found lum out. Men who in the tout ball lieid had put their knee out, men who strained their backs or iimbs, others who had suffered ironi rheumatism, some with weak hearts, or others who were troubled with one tning or another, are laid by in hospitals sutiering from their old complaints, and are now .forced to return to -New Zealand without ever having seen the enemy. 'Then a.gam ; the youngsters round about twenty years ol age are the lirst to break up. Doc-

tors can give you reasons. 1 merely stale lacts. They say "an old dog tor a hard road. 1 ' This certainly applies to Whangarei. Ihe full-grown and elderly man is the one we can depend on to keep lit in prelcrence to the young one. You will readily see that a sick man, as above, is worse than no man, lor it taiies a fit one to take care of him, while lie also occupies the place, time ,and attention which would be better applied elsewhere. ,