URUTI SLACKERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1916, Page 7

URUTI SLACKERS.

To the Editor. Sir, —Kindly allow me space to correct an error in your locals of to-day's issue re tho above. There is not a single tanner here who has more than one son eligible for active service that has not sent one or more to the front, and in one ease one of our best-known settlers has sent all three of his boys, and would willingly send as many' more if. ■he had them. As for the farmer \yho has four or five sons and lias not sent any, well, the only thing I can say is that lie does not live within twelve niiles ot Uruti. There have been almost forty men gone from here, a record for the population which will he hard to heat anywhere in the Dominion. No fewer than eight farmers have left their holdings in charge of neighbors and gone to do their little bit to uphold the honor of the Empire. > We consider such as your local of to-day casts a slur on n district that has done more than its .share to help old England in its time of -stress.—l am, etc., ROBT. AROA. Uruti, June 12. To tho Editor. ~. Sir,—Re your informant of the "Strap ping young fellows of Uruti. skulking at home," etc., 1 would say, by all means let the recruiting officer come out, and let the dear old busybody drive him round. [ have not the 'least doubt that the "strapping young fellows", will be quite capable of giving a satisfactory account of themselves in the proper quarter. Uruti has given its quota so far, and docs not need any prompting to continue doing its duty. ' 1 know of no farm where there are live sons on it and none enlisted. Various people in the present trouble have received rather a sharp slap in the face and been made to look very foolish by being too busy in this respect. To my knowledge, several, of these "strapping fellows" have enlisted, not once but twice and three times, in different places, in their endeavor to do their duty, but they are not going to satisfy any civilian 'busybody who likes to make himself impertinent.—l am, etc., A URUTI SETTLER.