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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1915, Page 5

Every district has its own pecul»ir 1 phase of the recruiting problem to (leftl ' wi'th. It is worthy to note that in » Otago, where the demand for. conscrip- i tion 18 as certain as the recruiting'figures 1 are unsatisfactory, there is a great out- j cry against the well-to-do farmers and j their failure to respond to the call, either personally or through their sons (writes an ex-Taranaki resident to the News). 4 Thirty or forty miles from Dunedin, ■ it is freely alleged, lives a man who threatened to disinherit any of his son* who enlisted. One dared to do so, and was thrown a shilling, with the angry paternal intimation that it «u the list money the gallant young New Ze*luder would ever receive from his moneygrabbing, unpatriotic papa. This story of threatened disinheritance is freely ' circulated in various townships, and rases are vouched for in Otago where families of seven and nine upstanding sons have made no effort to enrol for service with the colors. In one centra the local patriotic committee is setting out to redeem itself by stimulating its poor recruiting returns, and many ' "eligibles" will in the course of a day or two receive a little pink circular point- 1 ' ing out the country's need Ma tin \ aw'i 4wtx Smairt,