MORE MEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1915, Page 5

MORE MEN.

A NATIONAL RESERVE RALLY. By Telegraph.—Press Association, i Palmerston, N., Last Night. , i; A most enthusiastic rally of the Palmerston branch of the National Reserve was held here this evening. The princi-' pal speakers were Sir Joseph Ward and' t Dr. R. McNab. Prior to the rally a large procession, numbering about a thousand members of the reserve, marched round,' the square. Sir Joseph Ward, in the course of his address, urged tlio necessity for, (novo men. Ho said that in the year !19U the, total; mal<j population.' oi\NewsZea' laud, between the ages of 20 and 40, wot 193,251, and 110,000 of these were single 'i If necessary, over 128,000 were still available for service. He also statei that 72,000 unmarried women in New Zealand were ready to take the places of those who had gone, and would go, to the front. The speaker stressed iho fact that he had received several letters' referring to the good conduct of our troops abroad. He said premature peace would be a catastrophe, which Germany would count as a victory. His opinion, was that peace should never be given; the war was drawing us fifty years closer to our kith and kin of the Old Country. Dr. McNab, on rising to speak,' was cheered for fully three minutes. He said that his inclinations were to travel tlio country, doing what he could Ho induce men to join the colors, but he had, been recalled to take a seat in the 1 National Cabinet. Speaking of the war, he said that, not only were we fighting the army of a greater country, but a greater country armed, and only now, people were realising the fact,