IN AUSTRALIA.
GREATER RESPONSIBILITY
POLITICIAN ENLISTS
SYDNEY, Nov. 23
Mr A. C. Carmichael (Leiehhardt) in a letter to the Hon. W. A. Hplman, declining an offer of the appointment of Commissioner of Irrigation, says: — '"' I have decided that in this hour of the nation's most crucial need, if fresh responsibilities are to be undertaken they should be in the firing line. Therefore 1 'have decided to enlist for Service at the front."
Mr Carmichael, as the launcher of the rifle club movement, considers the clubs have been inadequately exploited for soldiers, and he has set himself the task of raising a riflemen's battalion of 1000 within the next month..
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8304, 24 November 1915, Page 6
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