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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13636, 17 March 1915, Page 5

• •"'■'-.'.?>.:?■'■ '.'■»■' .*"*',!;"•' :■ Sonic .interesting., 'particulars of t!ie work of Ihe Legion of Frontiersmen were contained m a letter from' Captain D'Estcnv,, and rat chut t'boi WangHnni Squadron,-, dinner .on v < Friday night. Since July. 191 P.J.: ovovx 1300- mcinbii'B : have joined m Now 'Zealand, and the badges, which- have .arrived ' fruiu Lon-, don, show, thai the 11,000 murk has been passpd,- the increase being over 5000 m" two years and a,-half! In the' North Is-* land nino squadrons ha-ve; been -established, also three troops m ,the North Island arid one- m the vSouth Island. ■There is a feeling amongst the Legion of Frontiersmen that they were badly treated by the authorities when the first call. was. made for . an- . Expeditionary Force from the Dominion. The l»g:on offered to fillj a transport with 1000 mounted men, and man the vessel from the bridge to the stokehold if necessary, a faat which would probably have been, outside the ability of any territorial organisation. The* authorities stuck to their quota system and refused the legion, ll w,'i* .surmised that flic r|iio(;i■^ysf.eni umiM ''le.'ik i.loami. snd ,it did.