FOR HOME CONSUMPTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 158, 3 January 1912, Page 6

FOR HOME CONSUMPTION.

"A NOTE OP WARNING." The following weird farrago was published in the Hull (Yorkshire) News:--Sir,—Just a word from New Zealand through your paper to your many readers, to all whom the above heading may interest. Your readers will be interested to know that New Zealand has had the law of compulsory conscription placed upon their shoulders, despite the fact that three parts of the population are opposed to the same. The better to foist compulsory conscription upon New Zealand we are told that the young generation are wanting in moral tone, character, and the bowing down before authority. Resenting this insult, New I Zealanders, despite the persecution l of a tyrant Government, have refused to enrol—from 20,000 to 2:1,000 refuse to bow down before military law, despite the fact that our boys have been thrown into gaol like common criminals. Our lads, through persecution, fled tlhe land, with many more to follow ere many months are over. Sir, parents have been dragged through our courts because they cannot drive their sons to enter upon a military life against their will. The same cause has wrecked the happiness of hundreds of homes throughout the land. Military barracks have been wrecked, and officers have nearly lost their lives owing to public resentment against cruel military persecution. Before many months hundreds are preparing to depart from New Zealand to lands where freedom and conscience are respected. I write to warn all parent* with families,; especially youths, to beware of coming out to New Zealand. If you seek freedom and happiness, then beware of New Zealand. Let England remember that New Zealand, once a land of freedom, now suffers under a reign of brutal military persecution. Thousands cry for justice in the name of conscience and liberty.—Yours, etc., G. Dee; Tinakori road, Wellington, New Zealand, 28th September, 1011.