APOLOGY DEMANDED.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 August 1918, Page 4

APOLOGY DEMANDED.

Captain D. Cosgrove, Director of Recruiting, recently directed a letter to a Kairanga household threatening to arrest one of its members if he failed to obey an order to turn up for medical examination. He has been favoured (says the Palmerston Times) with the following reply:— The Director of Recruiting.—Sir, — Re the enclosed, your office must be marvellously efficient (?) This is the third communication of the kind wc have received, and the third time you must be told that the addressee, Private , voluntarily enlisted and went to the front with the 25th Reinforcements, and was killed in action on the 20th November, 1917. Yet in face of these facts you have the effrontery to persist in insulting Kis memory and deeply wounding the feelings of his poor bereaved aged parents and his relatives. I now demand an apology from you, and intend reporting your actions to the Minister of Defence, — Yours truly, , brother of deceased.