URUTI RECRUITING.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1916, Page 2

URUTI RECRUITING.

To the Editor. Sir,—l don't knuw whether it is worth while answering Mr. latent efl'ush&n on the recruiting question so far as it concerns the Uruti district All that he has said, and others have said, in your columns docs not in the least affect the correctness of iry original statement, viz., that lli-ire are inc-n in the district quite eligible, who are not doing their duty, and tiiat o;:i f.un'ly Ins been busily buying properties and putting sons upon them whilst others have gene out to fight the nation's buttles and incidentally secure those properties from molestation by the German;,. : ,A 7 e have some men who prefer to keep these facts warm by exercising them in the billiard room, boasting of "hat they would do, etc; we have others who ;'*y they won't serve without commissions: others are too busy frying fish, and so on. But the call is ,here, all the same. As for my bona fides, you know, Mr. Editor, I've done my duty, and don't pride myself upon it either. I only regret 1 cannot do more. But it does make my blood boil to so? big, hulking fellows staying lHiind and garnering the plums and' enjoying the sweets of life, whilst my lads and my neighbors' lads are undergoing hardships and risking their lives at the front. My offer still holds good, that if the recruiting officer comes along T will take nivn to the eligibles, at least if they don't disappear ill the bush when they know of his coming.—l am, etc., "OLD BUSYBODY." [The discussion has gone far enough, perhaps too far, and this must end it, so far as we are concerned.—Ed. News]