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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 77, 28 September 1939, Page 13

Commenting on a statement made by Mr. C. S. Thomas at Christchurch, and published in yesterday's "Post," a correspondent says the New Zealand Scottish are not the first body of men in history to pay for fighting. "During the South African War," he remarks, "members of Baden-Powell's police recruited in London and other parts of the United Kingdom had to pay a fee of 5s for medical examination, which was not refunded if the applicant was rejected; also a unit of the Imperial Yeomanry, the 'Duke of Cambridge's Own,' not only supplied their own horses and equipment, but donated their pay to the Lord Mayor's Patriotic . Fund. Furthermore, in a good many volunteer regiments whose uniforms were costly, such as the Honourable Artillery Company, the London Scottish, the London Rifle Brigade, and the Royal Artists' Rifles, the uniforms were purchased by members who had the privilege of serving."

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