30,000 MEN WANTED THIS YEAR.
Spkaking at Palmerston on Thursday night, the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) said New Zealand had sent thirty-one thousand men to the front, twelve thousand were in camp, and two thousand were going in. To fulfil our obligation to the Imperial authorities this year, another thirty thousand, he believed, would be forthcoming. Personally, he would like to see them go by the voluntary system. It would not be satisfactory to see some go as volunteers and some as conscripts, but if necessary it might come to that. He believed it would have been a splendid thing if we originally had gone in for national service. He believed iu the principle of national service, and if we could not get the thirty thousand men this year by the existing system we must, to fulfil a solemn undertaking, get them by another method. Civilisation was trembling in the balance, and we must place in the scale every i ounce of energy, courage and
wealth. The Prime Minister’s remarks were loudly applauded.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1494, 8 January 1916, Page 2
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17730,000 MEN WANTED THIS YEAR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1494, 8 January 1916, Page 2
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