DEFENCE CAMPS.
A" case' was heard at Wanganui on in which a chemist was charged with preventing one of his employees from attending a camp of Territorials. The evidence .showed that the chemist had endeavoured to procure the services of a relieving assistant, but had failed, and that'as he could not conduct his business alone, he had refused leave to the Territorial. The Magistrate fined the chemist £1 and costs, and told him that employers must be willing to make sacrifices for the defence of their country. That is very sound advice in its way. But we venture to think that cases of the kind heard at Wanganui are calculated to bring the defence ; system into disrepute. While Territorial camps ar» possibly essential to the efficient working of the system, there seems to us to be no justification whatever for the application of rigorous regulations which entail unnecessary (Sacrifices on the part of employers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 July 1913, Page 4
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154DEFENCE CAMPS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 July 1913, Page 4
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