URUTI RECRUITING.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1916, Page 2

URUTI RECRUITING.

To the Editor. Sir, —To judge by the correspondence column of Thursday's issue of your paper the Uruti enlistment is not yet settled. In the first place "Old Busybody" is somewhat contradictory. He s&vs: "Uruti pepple. have done real well" In the next breath l\e states that the "Uruti Settler" is one for whom the slur was mcmit. That is very slifillow. debate "O.B." has overshot his mark by miles. I have not taiked, much less boasted of my reply. I have certainly listened to a few remarks in the stores re my reply but, like Brer Rabbit, "I laid low and said imffin." I haxe not yet tried to enlist, so cannot possibly be one for whom the slur was meant. I have neither weak knees, weak heart nor deafness to suffer at present. All the same, I an\ ineligible for military service. From the remarks I have listened to the Uruti people (except ''0.8.") do not condemn those who are unable to go and do their bit, but rather sympathise with tliem, and who can say they are not helping the boys at the front, even though they don't make a song abo,ut it? I have a,s much right to (Vfend the public character of Uruti as "O.B." has to cast slighting remarks on it. —I am, etc., A URUTI SETTLER. July 23, 1916.