The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, April 15, 1916. THE END OF VOLUNTARISM.
A MasTErton contemporary states that one week has passed since the Prime Minister and Mr T. Wilford, M.P., made what appeared to be stirring recruiting speeches in Masterton, The re spouse so far by the Borough and County is one recruit medically fit. This implies that the voluntary system is about exhausted. Ministers and politicians may stump the country and wax eloquent on the public platform,, but it is becoming more and more apparent that if reinforcements are to be kept up to the pledged quotas the screw must be put on in another direction. Persuasive eloquence will not shift those who are hanging back. The voluntary system has not been a failure. New Zealand has responded nobly in proportion to her population, but all things have an end, and the end of voluntarism is in sights It now remains for the Government to adopt compulsion if it is to keep its pledged word with the Imperial authorities.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1539, 15 April 1916, Page 2
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169The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, April 15, 1916. THE END OF VOLUNTARISM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1539, 15 April 1916, Page 2
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