EX-MINISTER ENLISTS.
RIFLE CLUB FOUNDER. SYDNEY, November "23. Mr A. C. Carmiehael, formerly-.Minis-ter foT Public Instruction .in. the..New South Wales Ministry, in a letter .to, the Premier, Mr Holman, declining an offer of an appointment on a commission in regard. to irrigation, says: "I have decided in this, the ho-ur of the nation' 3 most crucial need, that if fresh responsibilities are to be they should he in the firing-line. Therefore I have, decided to' enlist for service at the front." ■Mr Carmichael, as the founded of the (rifle club movement, considers 'fihat the cluibs have not been adequately exploited, for soldiers, and: he .has set himself fih,e -task of raising a riflemen's battalion of a thousand strong within 1 the next month. *'- •*''' ''' ;
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 24 November 1915, Page 5
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