DEMANDS OF DEFENCE.
The demands made upon, the people of this country in the name of Defences—(whatever that may mean in its isbriot interpretation—.are not going to be inconsiderable. It is just beginning to dawn upon the people that itihe getting together of. -a fiew thousand Territorials, and drilling them in the art of modern' warfare, is going to entail a very great sacrifice. It would ibe well' if the ioounrtlry <were\ given an approximate idea right now about what the thing is goijig to oost &n< time,, money and human energy. If it is going (bo past 25s to proteat'property of tfhie value of £l, it is bad ibusinesisjpropasition. Nobody: has" yet contie lfor- ; ward 'and told, us in round figureß ■what,we are going to pay. The spirit of patfrotiisnn is a> (noble thing in; Ms way. It is a splendid electioneering cry. But common sense dictates that the conditions of the ihargain should hie kmowin ihefbre (the seal is definitely affixed to the .contract.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10407, 30 August 1911, Page 4
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166DEMANDS OF DEFENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10407, 30 August 1911, Page 4
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