DROWING DOWN.
To the Editor. Sir,—"No, sir," said Degree, the slaveowner: "I never trouble about sick niggers. When they can't work they are no good to me." These words came into my head when I read in Mr. Massoy's own paper, the Dominion, of April 17. the following:—"Surprise is expressed at the action of the Defence authorities in sending two cot cases to Masterton in a goods train, which occupied nearly eight hours in the journey from Wellington." Had this appeared in the Times, for instance, people would have questioned it. The ordinary carriaires were being used by race-goer's, the wellfed young fellows' who are shirking at home for honor, and for whom a kindly Government provides a wet canteen, while the men who save the Empire are! if lying wounded, tortured to death's door for eight hours in a goods train, the shunting at every station being terrible, and if in training cold water is good enough for them.—l am, etc., BYSTANDER. Rahotu, April 17.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1916, Page 6
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166DROWING DOWN. Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1916, Page 6
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