ENCOURAGING (?) VOLUNTEERING.
PROPOSAL TO FORM A MOUNTED CORPS.
WHY IT FELL THROUGH.
By Telegraph—Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 20. The proposal tc form a Mounted Rifle Corps in New Plymouth has practically fallen through on account of the discourtesy arid apparent apathy of the Defence authorities. Sixty-eight would be soldiers had handed in their names, but after waiting over a month to receive a reply and authority from the Department to enrol, decided at a meeting yesterday to give the project up.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3075, 21 December 1908, Page 5
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82ENCOURAGING (?) VOLUNTEERING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3075, 21 December 1908, Page 5
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