Internment of Aliens.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 360, 15 March 1918, Page 2

Internment of Aliens.

TO THEElliron Sir,—l was very pleased to see in a recent issue your remarks on the alien question and I endorse all you advocate in that respect. I think it is high time our so-called leaders in these matters, local and otherwise, were brought to book and if they do not take sufficient interest in the well being and safety of themselves, their families and fellow countrymen, it would be more creditable for them to resign the positions they occupy and let others take their places. We are fighting an unscrupulous foe who will stoop to any low-down method to gain his end and it is our dnty as Britishers to do our utmost in every way possible, consistent with right, to put down our German enemy and keep him there.

I have tried to get the Chairman of the Pukekohe Patriotic Committee to take action to strengthen the hands of those who will represent us at the Imperial Conference with reference to the restoration of Samoa and the other Colonies taken from the Germans, but without success It therefore appears to me that the only course left open is to call the attention of the public to the matter. We, or rather our descendants, will depend for very existence on the absence of any German possessions in the Pacific and we, if we would be true to the boys who have fought so welt for us and to the good old nation to which we belong, should make our protest in an unmistakeable manner, Pukekohe should not be behind in this matter.—l am, etc., > R. F. W. Pukekohe.