CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1916, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

URUTI RECRUITING. To the Editor. Sir,—On returning to Uruti last night, after an absence of about a couple of weeks, it. was with much amusement Hint [ read nil answer to my letter of ■ lime 12 re the above, written by some person signing himself "Plain Talk." T should like to press the fact oil this individual that we are discussing Uruti recruiting, not Dominion recruiting. He save T should watch the Land "Board meetings, and see who is buying land .1!. tun per acre for single sons. I say, certainly not any Urnti settlers. As for guessing at flip ranges of rifle and 21 in lire, T should like to inform the poor fellow that we do n<i| guess at those sort of things, but iise instruments called range finders, anil brains to work them. Pel-bans "P.T " is not over endowed with Hie latter. Again, he says Tdo not give credit to (lie land owners of "Rerekapa" and "Tangitu" who have left their holdings in charge of neighbors and gone to the front. If "Mr. P.T.'' will only read my letter over again he will see that I mentioned nine who have done this, and as there is only one of them living close to the Uruti township, common sense should tell him that the aforementioned s.-l |.l"rs arc the ones T referred to. As (heir postal address is Uruti. then-lore tlr.y must be credited to our enlistments. Again, he goes 011 with a conglomeration about sprained knees, weak hearts, deafness, etc. All these Young men on whom he is trying to cast a slur have enlisted and been rejected fin' military service. Then lie "iishes away over Mount Messenger into /he Tongaponitu district (a great traveller. this whose eligibles have nothing to do with this Urnti recruiting controversy, lie also says in his letter t! at. Uruti Ins dune its share. Well, if our noble ii pis the original gentleman who interviewed your reporter, instead of trying to shiny that we have done our duly so far, he did just the. reverse. I di not, say that there are 110 eligibles left in Uruii. 1 am aware of the fact as well as "P.T.," but I have not the slightest hesitation ill saying that the few that arc left' will keep 011 offering themselves in the future as nobly as they have done in the past.—l a in, etc., ' 'ROBERT AROA. Uruti, Jul-; 1, 1910.