DUKE CALLED UP.
CONSCKIPTION "REAL DEMOCBACY." ,* '• "How really democratic an institution conscription is, says the Dundee "Advertiser," has been proved to Demonstration by "the news that the Duke Of ATgyll the great Maccallum Mbor himself —has reported at Stirling for medical examination has been passed grade 1, and has drawn from the national funds a sum representing .three days military pay to atone for inroad on the ducal leisure which was involved in.a journey from Inveraray. 1 "His grace is just 46, and a bachelor, and therefore he will be unable before the tribunal, to make any appeal on personal grounds, so that we may Teekon &ojlfidenft!y on Jiefering ■that he is in 'khaki one of these fins days. But, however, that may be, the mere fact that he has undergone the ordeal of medical examination will be a great comfort to all his contemporaries. They will be able to boast after they have themselves undergone the same experience, that they have been treated like a duke.''
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Taihape Daily Times, 1 October 1918, Page 6
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167DUKE CALLED UP. Taihape Daily Times, 1 October 1918, Page 6
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