♦Sir William Butler: An Autobiography •Constable. 1911), p. 388. JThe list of vice-presidents is interesting. They are tho Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Meath, Viscount Miluer, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Lord Raglan and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerald Noel. There aie GO branches, the presidents of which comprise six dukes, two niaxquesses. 20 earls, nine barons, three bishops, one knight, 13 naval or military officers and only six plain, ordinary esquires. It will readily be understood what value can be attached to the League's professed anxiety for conscription as a social leveller I It can better be understood that they desire what their gallant president claims will be a result of conscription, that is, the fostering in the people of a spirit of "ready obedience to authority." e'The Briton's Firtt Duty (1901), p. : 174. .... tSpwh in Hciom cl Lortlt. November ■ 23. 1908* .:'■",'..
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 48, 9 February 1912, Page 6
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