RECRUITING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 210, 19 September 1916, Page 4

RECRUITING.

Motion by Raglan County Council. Rigid Measures Advocated. The Baglan County Council, at its meeting last Tuesday, carried the following resolution dealing with recruiting for the Expeditionary Forces, viz.: " That this Council, while expressing its satisfaction at the way Paliament has endowed the Government with the necessary authority for raising the reinforcement drafts on a couscription basis, hopes that the Government will not hesitate to use the means thus placed at its disposal; but will put the Military Service Act into operation in its entirety forthwith and discontinue urging men to volunteer as such appeals find response only in the best of the Nation's manhood, which, however creditable to those offering themselves, perpetuates a system which only an emergency or unpreparedness on the part of the authorities could justify; resulting as it does in prolonging the immunity from personal service which the self-interested portion of the community now enjoy." The mover (Or Seavill) said that the motion fully explained itself. Cr McKinnon, in seconding, said that it was the right thing for the Government to do. The speaker knew of young men who would not go to the war, and these were the ones who should be made take up their share of the Empire's defence. Cr Moore said that he was also acquainted with men in the same position as Cr McKinnon had referred to

The chairman (Cr Johnstone) said that the motion was certainly in the right direction, and, on being put, it was carried unanimously.

The Council resolve! to send a copy of the motion to the Minister of Defence and to also seek the support of other local bodies throughout tho Dominion to the measure.