The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916. NEW RECRUITING SCHEME.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 33, 9 February 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916. NEW RECRUITING SCHEME.

(With which is incorporated The Tai hape Post and Waimarino Kews.)

The formation of a New Zealand Recruiting Board, - and other organisations proceeding together with similar processes in Australia, in Britain, and all the other Dominions of which the Empire is composed, constitute an emphatic reminder that the end of the war is not.yet. Another year of the slaughter of our sons and brothers, and of the indecently waxing fat of shipowners and other capitalists that are living like leeches upon the fastrunning blood of the Allies who are fighting to maintain the avenues of trade which they continue to exploit, may yet be expected. New Zealand’s recruiting contribution, as disclosed by the Board’s recently issued scheme, is 2,350 trained and equipped men every month as long as the war lasts. That number is in addition tc the 34,000 already sent and the 12,000 men now in training. The Board claims that our population of a million can send these men away without causing any undue strain upon the or upon its industries. It is an awful sacrifice for a young country to contemplate, but it is something utterly insignificant when compared with its possible alterna tive —an alternative too horrible for British minds to Th e sacrifices we are asked .to make are as a drop to an ocean when considered with th e loss of the Empire’s entity and individual freedom of both body and soul. However much we may resent the horrors German autocratic greed has thrust upon us, we must guard against making ourselves the victims. Germany is responsible for the war and it is for us to see to it that Germans are the victims to their own hellishly conceived schemes. The present is not the timd to quarrel among ourselves about the part New Zealand is to play. The men w e have already sent have thrown a halo of military and patriotic glory over all our land; we are not, by our pettiness going to lessen its brilliancy, rior are those that are going ,o the front in the future going to do other than uphold and add to the great name their fellows hav e already earned by the achievement of great and noble deeds. W e are told by the three leaders of our Government that the National Register discloses that we can furnish th e quota of men from New Zealand without undue strain, and it is our plain duty to assist the Board in every way in our power, for it has been stated by the greatest military authorities that, the greater the number of men the less wiU bedhe loss of life, and more quickly will the end come. ' We have a country that is worth fighting for and it is not like > that our young, well-built, man . braves are going to sit at home anc s it taken possession of by Teuton atio Src—- «> mo various i. «>o q “ S f; 0 " ( t Mu K s in op«atlon all no"' order earliest possiover the country at m. Me date. The scheme too h> g to outline iu this column, ' t m _ published on another page > TOW ’S if'ST'VU