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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 63, 14 March 1916, Page 7

In Kew Zealand men who might to enlist ato known os shirkers; the Canadian soldiers at the front -have dubbed them “sooncrs.” A “sooner;” as was explained in o. Jotter from a Canadian Ci the trenches, is “a young man who would sooner stay at his work, sooner bo on home defence than on active service, sooner stay at the base than go to the fighting line, sooner ,drill men in home camps, sooner s"-enk round the streets in a pnifmw .than enlist for active service—in fa?\ sooner do anyt-hing then fight.” The name should stick.