The Recruiting System
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —May I trespass on your valuable space re the new recruiting system. I notice several of the local bodies around do not intend to be made cats paws of by the National Cabinet, and I have been patiently waiting to see what steps the Huntly Town Board are going to take on so important a matter. Both Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward know quite well that they cannot keep up the Reinforcements under the voluntary and new recruiting system if they do not send good recruiting officers to all centres throughout the whole of the Dominion instead of making balls and trying to get the local bodies to throw them, or in other words to do their dirty work. They are both playing a game of bluff, afraid to move hand or foot, in case it will be detrimental to their chances as Premier in the next New Zealand Parliament. They are there I presume to do their duty to the Empire, and if they are afraid to do that they should resign, and let other men take the helm and help the Mother Country to steer the Empire through the present crisis without fear or favour. I am, etc. PRO PATRIA.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 February 1916, Page 3
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210The Recruiting System Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 February 1916, Page 3
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