Volunteer System
“NOT ALL IT IS CRACKED UP TO BE.” to “Times.”) WAIPUKURAU, Feb. li. * ( This is the worst year the military forces have ever had,” said one of the warrant officers with the Ist Battalion, the Wellington Regiment, naw_in-camp at Waipukurau, to a “Timos” representative to-day. “The volunteer system is not all it is cracked up to be, and, uow that there is more work, about, the ranks are steadily diminishing ia numbers. There arc not quite two hundred in camp all told, a most disappointing total. Iu tho past, when men have been out of work they have joined the rank# and conic to camp ror the sake of soiu#» thing to do.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 2
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