A WAY TO ASSIST.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1915, Page 6

A WAY TO ASSIST.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l would like to say a few words in regard to the dairying industry and recruiting. Now, in all our factories (especially cheese factories), where so many young men are employed, there are a large number of young men of military age who fully realise they are doing something in regard to providing food for the men who are fighting. It 6eems to me that a good deal might he done to assist recruiting by a little organisation. There are a good number of men who enlist for the front who are rejected because they are physically unfit. Now, these men who nobly volunteered their services I have no doubfr would be only willing to do the next best thing. It seems to me that they could not serve their country better than by filling the places of those who go, and at the same time they will be doing their share in providing for the boys at the front. Perhaps if the authorities could see their way to take the names of those who are rejected, and find out if they were willing to fill the place of others who are only too willing to go to the front, a good deal might be done. If those names were handed overdo the large dairy companies, and the men employed therein informed that their positions could be filled by men who had enlisted and been rejected, I feel quite certain that there are very few amongst them who would not enlist at once. This would also assist dairy companies in procuring hands to carry on the necessary work. Of course, the same scheme applies to other industries as well, but as the dairying industry is one of the most important in Taranaki, I think the matter should be worthy of the consideration of those in authority.—l am, etc FACTORY MANAGER,