"ALL BROTHERS."
- THE "WESTS" AND THE "SENTS." (Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. The Minister of Defence, in conversation with your correspondent, expressed himself emphatically against any idea of differentiating .■between the recruit who goes voluntarily into camp arid the man who will get there because of the fortune of the ballot. "There seems to be an idea in the cbmj munity," remarked the Hon. James Allen, "that the military..authorities are going to make differences .between the man who is brought under the Military Service Act and the man who goes into the service voluntarily. I desire to let iit be plainly, known that there is going to be no difference. Someone has written ,to the Press stating that the balloted | man will be marked with a "C" for "Conscript." Nothing of the sort! There will be no difference, either in marking or any other way. The pay will be the same, and I hope both classes of men will meet in camp as 'brothers, determined on the one object, and that is, to make this a .fight' to 6ettle the Germans."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 236, 3 October 1916, Page 4
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