UNIFORMS AND RECRUITING
.Now that the. voluntary system of defence was being reverted to, said Gqlonel. F. Symon,; proposing the toast of D; Battery at its annual reunion .. Ja.t i.Wellington, it was desirable to encourage recruiting, but he did not bel'eve that attractive uniforms would be of any (assistance in that respect. He with ; Major SlTaw, ,who had quoted’. to .Parliament the .. following inductmints held ..out: to men to . join the (Light .Dragoons in 1801.:—“You will be mounted . on.-^he./finest horses in the wdrldjy richest .accoutrements. Your pay and privileges,.are . equal to two guineas a society is. - courted. You areadmired by the fair,-; which, com-hiiTedr-with/The chance, of ,geiti ng switch - *d .to a ‘■rich ■widow, .or with a.-rich heiress, .'renders,;the . situation .enviable abd desirable. Young men out of employment, or otherwise nn-
comfortable,... “there is a tide in the affairs ..of men .which, taken at the flood, leads ,on to fortune.’ ” If those inducements proved in 1801, brighter .uniforms would have little effect on recruiting . to-day.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1931, Page 3
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165UNIFORMS AND RECRUITING Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1931, Page 3
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