VOLUNTEER SYSTEM.
RECRUITING COMPARISONS. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, October 4. ‘‘The volunteer system of recruiting was abandoned in this country not because men were not coming forward, but because they were not enlisting in the right proportions/’ said) the Minister for Finance (the Hon. W. Nash), in replying to the war finance debate in> the House of Representatives to-day. Ho said it had been, decided that the fair way was to bring •ill everybody who had a like responsibility and like sacrifices to make.
“The same principle exactly is in thie £8,000,000 loan plan,” lie said. “There is no compulsion in this loan in the first sense. I believe that thousands and hundreds of thousands of people null subscribe more than they have to. Yet there are some who would never subscribe, and the compulsion provisions are for them.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 308, 5 October 1940, Page 2
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